Best Europa stamp 2020 - Jury prize

Poland

The 2020 Best Europa stamp - Jury has been announced by PostEurop in this press release.

This was the 9th 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.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year's judging was held at a later date and in a new "hybrid" format. The Jury gathered both physically and virtually for the competition. 

 

 This year's winner is Poland - it's the first time that Poland wins the Jury prize !

2nd – Faroe Islands (17.- DKK value)
=    - Switzerland (top stamp)
=    - Ukraine
3rd - Germany (stamp from the block)

This year's Jury was composed as follows (clockwise from the top left) :

• Marjan Osvald, Pošta Slovenije, PostEurop MAC Chair, Slovenia
• Jana Vlachová, PostEurop (not part of the jury)
• Botond Szebeny, PostEurop's Secretary General, Hungary (Chair of the jury)
• Olaf Neumann & Stefan Klein, Stamp designers, Germany
• Emile Espen, Post Luxembourg, PostEurop SPWG Vice-Chair, Luxembourg
• Jürgen Haepers, Blog "Europa-stamps", Switzerland
• Guy Coutant, Royal Belgian Academy of Philately, Belgium
• Eric Contesse, Blog "Timbré du Jura", France

Belgium 2021

Belgium

Date of Issue: 14th June 2021

one souvenir-sheet of two stamps (2x Europe 3rd class value)

Best Europa stamps – the collector’s choice 2020 - Group 3

Europe

Best EUROPA Stamps - The Collector's Choice 2020

Results of GROUP 3:

1. Turkey 15.5 % of the votes

2. Artsakh (Armenian post) 11.9 %

3. Denmark 11.4 %

4. France 9.1 %

Those top 4 countries go to the Big Final.

5. Estonia 7.8 %

6. Luxembourg 7.3 %

    Montenegro 7.3 %

8. Spain 6.5 %

9. Kosovo 4.6 %

10. Portugal 3.6 %

11. Andorra (Spanish post) 3.2 %

      Andorra (French post) 3.2 %

13. the Netherlands 2.7 %

14. Azores 2.3 %

15. Lithuania 1.8 %

      Madeira 1.8 %

Sweden 2021

Sweden

Date of Issue: 14th January 2021 - NOTE this stamp is self-adhesive

one stamp (24.- SEK) 

 

Best Europa stamps – the collector’s choice 2020 - Group 2

Europe

Best EUROPA Stamps - The Collector's Choice 2020

Results of GROUP 2:

1. Belarus 16.9 % of the votes

2. Serbia 11 %

3. Croatia 10.1 %

4. Finland 9.3 %

Those top 4 countries go to the Big Final.

5. Germany 7.2 %

6. Greece 6.7 %

    Bosnia and Herzegovina 6.7 %

8. Switzerland 5.1 %

9. North Macedonia  4.6 %

10. Monaco 4.2 %

      Latvia 4.2 %

12. Austria 3.8 %

13. Malta 3.4 %

     Åland 3.4 %

15. Gibraltar 2.1 %

16. Iceland 1.3 %

Georgia 2020

Georgia

Date of Issue: 30th October 2020

one stamp (2.70 GEL)

this stamp is issued in a mini-sheet of 8 stamps

Finland 2021

Finland

Date of Issue: 28th April 2021

three stamps (3x domestic value) - NOTE those stamps are self-adhesive

those stamps are issued in a booklet of 15 stamps (5 stamps of each)

In 2011 the Europa issue of Great-Britain, combined for the first time the Europa stamps logo and the WWF logo on the same stamp.

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This Finnish Europa issue is part of a serie of "Endangered species" launched in 2016 and continued in 2018.