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:
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Curiosities:
Normal and reversed overprint
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