File:Stamp 1937 Greece MiNr0397 pm B002.jpg

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Stamp of Greece; 1937; definitive stamp of the issue "Greek History"; The stamp motive shows a bronze statuette of the old-Greek God Zeus from his sanctury at the Oracle in Dodoni (Dadoni, Dodona or similarly) in the Greek landscape Epirus.; The casted bronze statuette show a thunderbolt (arrow-swinging) Zeus from the begin of the classical period of the Greek antique, that's meaning from the time around 470 BC., contemporary location of this sculpture is the "Altes Museum" in Berlin (Germany).; stamp postmarked
Stamp: Michel: No. 397; Yvert & Tellier: No. 424; Scott: No. 398; AFA: No. 410
Color: dark green / black
Watermark: Greece No.2 (Multiple crowns, slant, upwards)
Nominal value: 20 Lepta

Postage validity: from 1 November 1937 until 1 July 1943
date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1937-11-01T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+1943-07-01T00:00:00Z/11

Stamp size (printed area of a single stamp): 23.0 x 32.5 mm
Date (first issue date of the stamp)
Source scan of original
Author "Hellenic Post" (ELTA)
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This image is in the public domain according to Greek copyright law (Paragraph 5 of Article II, Law 2121 of 1993) because it shows or is part of an official text expressive of the authority of the State, notably a legislative, administrative or judicial text.
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  • The depicted sculpture in Berlin
    The depicted sculpture in Berlin
  • Map of Dodoni in the landscape Epirus (Greece)
    Map of Dodoni in the landscape Epirus (Greece)
  • The excavation site at Dorona in 2008
    The excavation site at Dorona in 2008
Picture description Bronze sculpture of the thunderbolt Zeus from Dodoni (Dodona), (Greece)
First day of issue
Publisher "Hellenic Post" (ELTA)
Printing technique Lithography
Circulation 11,340,000
Perforation Line or Comb perforation, L or K 12½ : 13
MICHEL Nr. Griechenland (GR), Nr. 397
SCOTT Nr. Greece (GR) No. 398

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