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Showing posts with label Postcards showing banknotes or stamps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Postcards showing banknotes or stamps. Show all posts
March 11, 2020

3455 GERMANY (Hamburg) - Rickmer Rickmers

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Rickmer Rickmers is a three masted barque permanently moored as a museum ship in Hamburg , near the Cap San Diego steamer, also a mus...
December 20, 2017

3220 CHRISTMAS (United Kingdom) - Christmas tree

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Royal Mail issued Christmas stamps for the first time in 1966, when it ran a competition on BBC's Blue Peter to select the design. ...
September 17, 2016

1570, 1586-1587, 1781-1782, 2758 UNITED KINGDOM (Turks and Caicos Islands) - The map and the flag of the Turks and Caicos Islands

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1570, 1586 The map of the Turks and Caicos Islands (1) Posted on 10.05.2015, 17.05.2015, 03.06.2015, 26.07.2015, 17.09.2016 The Tu...
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August 28, 2016

2717 GUERNSEY - The 150th Anniversary of "The Toilers of the Sea", by Victor Hugo

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When Louis Napoleon ( Napoleon III ) seized complete power in 1851 , establishing an anti-parliamentary constitution, Hugo openly decla...
May 1, 2016

2514, 2515 UNITED NATIONS - The 70th anniversary of the United Nations

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    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the beginning of the 70th anniversary of the United Nations when he was attending the Afr...
March 9, 2016

2363 UNITED KINGDOM (Turks and Caicos Islands) - National Museum in Cockburn Town

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Established in the 1980s and opened in 1991, the Turks and Caicos National Museum is housed in one of the oldest stone structures in...
February 4, 2016

2262 ROMANIA - All the best from Bucharest!

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Postcrossing community from Romania isn't among the largest, but it is certainly one of the most active. Thanks to a small group o...
September 4, 2015

1874 UNITED KINGDOM (Turks and Caicos Islands) - Salt Raking at Salt Cay

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Salt Cay is a tiny, flat, triangular island, with an area of only 6.7 sq km and a population of less than 100. Around 1673, British Co...
July 26, 2015

1785 PALAU - Sharks of Palau

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On 25 September 2009, Palau , an island country which share maritime boundaries with Indonesia , the Philippines , and the Federated St...
June 9, 2015

1642 OMAN - Traditional fishing boat in Musandam

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The Musandam peninsula juts into the Strait of Hormuz (the narrow entry into the Persian Gulf , from the Arabian Peninsula ) and is a...
June 1, 2015

1623 UNITED KINGDOM (Pitcairn Islands) - Adamstown, the smallest capital in the world

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The Pitcairn Islands , the last British Overseas Territory in the Pacific, are a group of four islands, of which only Pitcairn , the s...
May 24, 2015

1606 TONGA - A Philatelic Souvenir Postcard from the Friendly Islands

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Tonga , officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is a Polynesian sovereign state and archipelago comprising 177 islands with a total surface a...
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May 12, 2015

1576 TUVALU - Crested Tern

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Located in the Pacific Ocean, midway between Hawaii and Australia , Tuvalu , the fourth smallest country in the world, consists of thr...
December 20, 2014

1364 UNITED KINGDOM (Pitcairn Islands) - Oeno Island

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Oeno Island or Holiday Island is a coral atoll in the South Pacific Ocean, part of the Pitcairn Islands overseas territory. Located ...
November 25, 2014

1343 BOTSWANA - Moths

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This postcard depicts a shaped miniature sheet comprising a series of stamps issued on July 19, 2000, Moths of Botswana : Mopane moth...
August 24, 2014

1204 SWEDEN - The world's largest struck coin

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In 1646 a ship, loaded with iron bars, was wrecked in the archipelago of Gryt in Östergötland . In the cabin there was a chest containi...
February 3, 2012

0114 DENMARK (Faroe Islands) - ...bygði þenna stað fyrst (...lived in this place first)

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I received this wonderful maxicard issued by Faroe Islands from Kajo, which is Finnish and apologizes that had no maxicard from his ...
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January 17, 2012

0101 A 20€ bill from Santa Claus

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I wouldn't say that is the best time for a discussion on the euro, but Siem "Makemehappy" sent me a postcard with a 20 euro b...
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