200e anniversary of the first airborne of human in an air-balloon (new value)

 

For this issue, the series of 28 June 1984 is used with new value.

 

Date of issue: 23 April 1994

Expiration date:

Design: Mathy-Hanquet

Printing: The House of Questa (England)

Perforation: 13

Size: 24.5 x 37.5 mm

Sheet: 50 (10 x 5)

Marginal inscriptions: printer’s color blocks at the right, plate numbers lower left, ‘The House of Questa’ in black at the right bottom.

Circulation: 4,000

 

No 1457. 30 nk on 10k, 1783  La Montgolfiere (no 1245)

No 1458. 50 nk on 15k, 1783 Ballon de Charles & Robert (no 1246)

No 1459. 1,50 nz on 3z, 1784 “La Gustave” (no 1247)

No 1460. 2,50 nz on 5z, 1899 Santos-Dumont III (no 1248)

No 1461. 3,50 nz on 10z, Ballon stratospherique. Picard 1932 (no 1249)

No 1462. 5 nz on 15z, 1936 Zeppelin LZ 129 (no 1250)

No 1463. 7,50 nz on 37,50z, 1978 Double Eagle II (no 1251)

No 1464. 10 nz on 80z, Ballons a air chaud (no 1252)

The series:

 

Curiosities:

Normal and reversed overprint