Tropical fishes, 1980
All the fishes depicted are marine (sold water) fishes, especially from coral reefs.
There are not necessarily all from African seas.
Date of issue: 20 October 1980
Expiration date:
Design: Vasarhelyi
Printing: Format International Security Printers Ltd, London
Perforation: 13.5
Size: 46.5 x 34 mm
Sheet: 25
Marginal inscriptions:
Circulation: 150,000
No 1041. 1k, Butterfly fish (white collared coral fish), Chaetodon collaris
No 1042. 5k, Sailfin Tang, Zebrasoma veliferum
No 1043. 10k, Blue Face Angel, Euxiphipops xanthometapon
No 1044. 20k, Blue-ringed Angelfish, Pomacanthus annularis
No 1045. 50k, Flame Angel, Centropyge loriculus
No 1046. 150k, Harlequin Filefish or Orange Spotted Filefish, Oxymonacanthus longirostris
No 1047. 200k, Niger Triggerfish, Balistoides niger
No 1048. 250k, Reef Triggerfish or Picasso Triggerfish, Rhinecanthus aculeatus
The series:
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The imperforated series is in size and coloring exact the same as above:
Remark: the white border around these stamps is much larger when cut from a side, top, bottom or corner of a sheet.
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No 1049. 5z (always from block 45)
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Block 45. 5z, perforated. Circulation: 76,000
(4,500 were later overprinted for the Democratic Republic Congo, 2001)
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Block 45. 5z, imperforated it is in size and coloring exact the same as above:
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Sheet of block 45, which was wrongly cut.
Coll. Kurt C.
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