Åland - Sepac 2025

Åland - Sepac

Date of Issue: 9th May 2025

one stamp (4.20 €)

Finland 2025

Finland

Date of Issue: 7th May 2025

two stamps (2x national value = 2x 2.50 €) - NOTE those stamps are self-adhesive

those stamps are issued in a mini-sheet of 10 stamp (5 of each)

Two ancient artifacts: a bronze bird pendant discovered in Mikkeli (from the Iron Age, 800–1050) and a golden Ave Maria ring from Pyhtää (from the Middle Ages, 1150–1500). 

Åland 2025

Åland

Date of Issue: 9th May 2025

one stamp (Europa value = 3.90 €)

The stamp highlights the Jettböle idol, one of Åland’s most unique archaeological finds. The Jettböle idol has become a symbol of the Åland Stone Age. It was found in 1906 during the excavation of the 5000-year-old Stone Age settlement in Jettböle on Åland, which had been discovered by chance in 1905. The excavations revealed Åland’s first Stone Age settlement and changed the view of the prehistory of Åland. The significance of the clay idols of human figures from the Stone Age has been interpreted in various ways over the years, including as ritual objects.

Kazakhstan 2024

Kazakhstan

Date of Issue: 31st October 2024

one souvenir-sheet of 2 stamp (2x 1'000.- KZT)

1. Didymosphenia geminata - Wikipedia article

2. Beluga (sturgeon) (Huso huso) - IUCN Red list - Wikipedia article

Best Europa stamp 2024

France

The 2024 Best Europa stamp has been announced by PostEurop in this press release.

France is the winner of the 2024 Best Europa stamp contest organized by PostEurop. Monaco finished second and Azerbaijan (stamp from the souvenir-sheet) is third.

1. FRANCE
2. MONACO
3. AZERBAIJAN

As written earlier on this blog, PostEurop changed the rules for this contest. 3 voting panels (public, jury and operators) are selecting the best Europa stamp. The results of these three panels are compiled and gives an overall winner.

France wins the overall contest and won also the postal operators voting :

Public voting :

1. Turkey
2. Armenia
3. Azerbaijan

Jury voting :

1. Jersey
2. Monaco
3. Cyprus

Postal operators voting :

1. France
2. Azerbaijan
3. Italy

Consolidated result of all three panels - top 10 :

1. France
2. Monaco
3. Azerbaijan
4. Cyprus
5. Armenia
= Poland
7. Jersey
= Turkey
9. Portugal
10. Georgia

Note that Belarus and Russia were excluded of this contest due to their aggression of Ukraine.

PostEurop informs us also that the Dutch Underwater Federation (Nederlandse Onderwatersport Bond) awarded a special diploma to the 2024 Europa stamp from the Czech Rep., selecting it as their favourite.
Regarding the stamp, the NOB said: ”This stamp represents the variety of all the flora and fauna there is in the waters. The similarity between all the creatures visible on the stamp and the ones that exist in the Dutch waters, is big. Besides that, the stamp itself is full of detail of all the different plants, fish, reptiles and invertebrates shown on the stamp.”

Malta - Sepac 2024

Malta - Sepac

Date of Issue: 16th September 2024

one stamp (1.91 €) out of a set of four stamps (only this stamp is bearing the official Sepac logo).

 this stamp is issued in a mini sheet of 10 stamps

 

Sepac 2024

Europe - Sepac

Sepac 2024
"Main tourist attraction"

 

24.04.2024 Jersey - 1 stamp (2.95 GBP) - out of a set of 5 stamps

08.05.2024 Åland - 1 stamp (Europa value)
24.05.2024 Greenland - 1 stamp (25.- DKK)
27.05.2024 Faroe Is. - 1 stamp (33.- DKK)

03.06.2024 Liechtenstein - 1 stamp (1.90 CHF)
20.06.2024 Monaco - 1 stamps (1.96 €)
25.06.2024 Gibraltar  - 1 stamp (1.- GBP) - out of a set of 6 stamps

25.07.2024 Guernsey - 1 stamp (2.71 GBP) - out of a set of 4 stamps this issue has been withdrawn

10.09.2024 Luxembourg - 1 stamp (E50g value)
16.09.2024 Malta - 1 stamp (1.91 €) - out of a set of 4 stamps

no issue of the Isle of Man
no issue of the Vatican