Cuba 1977 Military Spartakiad 1977
- Label : "Cuba Postal Service" ("Officina de correos de Cuba"); 1977; commemorative stamps of the issue "4th Military Spartakiad 1977" in Cuba;
(issue of 4 normal stamps + 2 airmail stamps)
Note:
The currency on the Cuban 1977 stamps is the "Cuban Peso" (CUP) = "Moneda Nacional" (MN) with the fragmentation 1 Peso = 100 Centavos. (not to mistake with the 1994 created CUC with the actual exchange rate 25 CUP = 1 CUC. Actually are stamps sold to tourists only in CUC, but postcards and letters reach seldom their receiver adresses. Native Cubans can purchase stamps in CUP.)
Stamp datas:
- Catalogue numbers : Michel: No. 2241-2246; Yvert & Tellier: No. 2022-2025 and PA262+PA263; Scott: No. 2156-2159 and C260+C261
- Colors : multicolored
- Watermark : none
- Nominal values : 1 - 3 - 5 - 10 - 13 - 30 ₵ (Centavos)
- - 13 ₵ + 30 ₵ = for airmail porto-levels
- Printed by : "Empresa de Correos, Prensa y Filatelia" as subenterprise of "Post, Press and Philatelic Enterprise" (ECOPREFIL) of the "Ministry of Communications" (MINCOM) of the "República de Cuba", Havana
- Print process : Offset printing on luminescent paper
- Perforation : Comb perforation, K 12¾
- Stamp size :
- - vertical format (printed area of a single stamp) : 29.5 x 40.0 mm
- - horizontal format (printed area of a single stamp) : 40.0 x 28.5 mm
Commemorative stamps of the issue "4th Military Spartakiad 1977" in Cuba;
(issue of 4 normal stamps + 2 airmail stamps)
Stamps
mint
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postmarked
To the single stamp motives:
All stamp motives are depicted beside a event-logo.
- 1 ₵ (Centavo) : "Boxing"
- 3 ₵ (Centavos) : "Volleyball"
- 5 ₵ (Centavos) : "Parachute jumping"
- 10 ₵ (Centavos) : Running"
- 13 ₵ (Centavos) : "Grenade throwing"
- 30 ₵ (Centavos) : "Rifle shooting"
