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To commemorate the centenary of the first postage stamps issued, the postal authorities issued a series of special stamps. In the center of the stamp is an exact replica of the first stamp issued, the 5 Quartos carmine showing a profile of an effigy or Queen Isabela II of Spain, On its left side Magellan lands on Philippine shores. He holds in ...
A 1947 Republic of the Philippines Documentary Revenue 50 Centavos used on a 1949 Proxy document. [1] A 20c revenue stamp of the Philippines. Governing authorities in the Philippines have issued a variety of stamps for internal revenue taxes and other fiscal taxes since 1856. [2] Prior to 1856, internal revenues were collected via stamped paper.
The dates are the generally agreed-upon dates of first and last stamp issues. "Date of issue" is taken to mean the date when a particular type or variation was first issued but its usage would often continue for many years. For example, although an entity may have issued its last stamp in 1951, actual usage may have continued until 1960: in ...
A first day cover usually consists of an envelope, a postage stamp and a postmark with the date of the stamp's first day of issue thereon. [69] Starting in the mid-20th century some countries began assigning the first day of issue to a place associated with the subject of the stamp design, such as a specific town or city. [70]
The Scott numbering system assigns plain numbers for regular mail stamps, and uses capital letter prefixes for special-purpose types, such as "B" for semi-postals and "C" for airmail. The numbers are generally consecutive; there are gaps among older stamps, where some numbered types were later renumbered, and among newer stamps where Scott has ...
Perhaps the most basic sort of literature is the stamp catalogue. This is basically a list of types of postage stamps along with their market values. The first stamp catalogue was published in France by Oscar Berger-Levrault on 17 September 1861 and the first illustrated catalogue by Alfred Potiquet in December 1861 (based on the earlier work).
A subsequent law allowed five more stamps to be issued at two-year intervals. The first, for Alzheimer's disease, was released in November, 2017. [3] Semi-postal issues are not always issued on a regular basis for health and similar causes; they have been on occasion issued as a means of raising funds for disaster relief.
Early issue 1896 10 pesos note from El Banco Español-Filipino (1896). Banknotes of the Philippine peso are issued by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (formerly the Central Bank of the Philippines) for circulation in the Philippines. The smallest amount of legal tender in wide circulation is ₱20 and the largest is ₱1000. The front side of ...