Best Europa stamp 2015 - Public prize

Turkey

Turkey is the winner of the 2015 Best Europa stamp contest organised by PostEurop. Hungary finished second and Finland is third.

1. TURKEY  
2. HUNGARY       
3. FINLAND

this 2.50 TRY stamp is part of a two stamp set.

It's the third time Turkey wins the on line voting and since 2011 they always finished in the top 2 ! They won in 2011 and 2013 and finished 2nd in 2012 and 2014 !

The Best Europa stamp design competition is a yearly event. The first competition took place in 2002. All official Europa stamp issues can enter the competition.

The result of this competition was announced during this PostEurop's Plenary Assembly held this month in Limassol, Cyprus.

The stamp has been selected via the internet ! All people could vote through PostEurop's website ! More than 10'000 votes were registered.

A jury of 9 members (stamp designers, philatelic design directors) awarded earlier this year, the Best Europa stamp - Jury prize to Russia !


Here you can find the full list of winning stamps since the first contest in 2002 when Malta won.

Denmark - Norden 2016

Denmark - Norden

Date of Issue: 4th January 2016

two stamps (2x 8.- DKK) and one souvenir-sheet (2x 8.- DKK)

Denmark 2016

Denmark

Date of issue: 31st March 2016

one souvenir-sheet of two stamps (2x 25.- DKK)

Best Europa stamp 2015 - Jury prize

Russia

The 2015 Best Europa stamp - Jury prize was awarded this week-end in Brussels’ town hall.

This was the fifth edition of this neutral and artistic prize.

Eight experts of the philatelic world were invited to join the jury and judge the Europa stamps based on their expert opinion.

This year's winner is Russia with the following stamp :

2nd – Sweden (under stamp)

3rd - Latvia (1.71 € value)

This year's Jury was composed of (from the left to the right:

• Andrée Trommer, General secretary of the Fédération internationale de philatélie (FIP), Luxembourg
• Olaf Neumann, Designer, Germany
• Stefan Klein, Designer, Germany
• Botond Szebeny, PostEurop's Secretary General, Hungary
• Guy Coutant, Pro Post, Belgium
• Eric Contesse, Philatelist expert, timbredujura.blogspot.com, France
• Arie Piet, Enschedé Printing, the Netherlands
• Antonio Manuel Amaral, PostEurop's coordinator (not part of the jury) • Jürgen Haepers, Philatelist expert, europa-stamps.blogspot.com, Switzerland

Sepac folder 2015

Europe - Sepac

"Colourful cultures of Europe 6", this special folder contains the 12 Sepac stamps to be issued this year.

This folder will be on sale by any of the Sepac countries philatelic offices !

Liechtenstein - Sepac 2015

Liechtenstein - Sepac

Date of Issue: 16th November 2015

one stamp (1.30 CHF) out of a set of 3 stamps

Albania 2015

Albania

Date of Issue: 2nd September 2015

one stamp (130.- ALL) and one souvenir-sheet (250.- ALL)

the stamp is issued in a mini-sheet of 9 stamps


a different souvenir-sheet with two stamps (130.- & 250.- ALL) is also issued in a booklet