Miniature Sheet - Grenada Grenadines - 2000
<p>This miniature sheet was issued to commemorate the turn of the millennium in general and achievements and events of the first half of the 14th century in particular. The sheet features seventeen stamps and seventeen events with a short description of each along the left side. The stamps are captioned as follows:</p>
<ul><li>"Robert Bruce crowned King of Scotland 1306"</li>
<li>"Fresco painting by Giotto 1306"</li>
<li>"Mansa Musa, Ruler of Mali 1307"</li>
<li>"Dante completes The Divine Comedy 1321"</li>
<li>"Noh Theater developed in Japan 1325"</li>
<li>"Tenochtitlan founded by Aztecs 1325"</li>
<li>"Ibn Batuta sets out on 24 year journey 1325"</li>
<li>"Great Munich fire 1327"</li>
<li>"1328 Ivan I makes Moscow capital"</li>
<li>"Hundred Years War begins 1337"</li>
<li>"First use of cannon in Europe 1346"</li>
<li>"Black Death devastates Europe 1348"</li>
<li>"Boccaccio starts writing The Decameron 1348"</li>
<li>"Eyeglasses developed in Italy 1350"</li>
<li>"Plate armor replacing chain mail 1350"</li>
<li>"Grand Canal of China is completed 1326"</li>
<li>"Great migration of Maoris to New Zealand 1350"</li>
</ul><p>All of the stamps have a denomination of 50¢ (0.50 XCD).</p>
English
Miniature Sheet
Miniature Sheet - Antigua and Barbuda - 2000
<p>This miniature sheet was issued to commemorate the turn of the millennium in general and achievements and events of the second half of the 13th century in particular. The sheet features seventeen stamps and seventeen events with a short description of each along the left side. The stamps are captioned as follows:</p>
<ul><li>"1250– Expansion of the Inquisition"</li>
<li>"1260– Chartres Cathedral"</li>
<li>"1260– Naumburg sculptures"</li>
<li>"1261– First English Parliament"</li>
<li>"1270– <em>Maestà</em> by Cimabue"</li>
<li>"1271– Marco Polo"</li>
<li>"1271– Divine Wind"</li>
<li>"1274– Death of Thomas Aquinas"</li>
<li>"1277– Arezzo Cathedral"</li>
<li>"1286– 'The Maid' of Norway, Queen of Scotland"</li>
<li>"1290– Jewish exodus from England"</li>
<li>"1291– Acre is taken over by Muslims"</li>
<li>"1291– Moshe de Leon incorporates his work in the text of <em>The Zohar</em>"</li>
<li>"1292–98 – German Civil War"</li>
<li>"1294– Death of Kublai Khan"</li>
<li>[Stamp not captioned; caption from description: "1295 Dante (Florence, 1265) writes <em>La Vita Nuova</em>, dedicated to Beatrice. Albeit impossible, his love remained alive forever, immortalized in one of the masterpieces of Western literature."</li>
<li>"1296– 'Autumn Colors on the Quiao and Hua Mountains' by Zhan Mengfu"</li>
</ul><p>All of the stamps have a denomination of 60¢ (0.60 XCD).</p>
English
Miniature Sheet
Antigua and Barbuda
Postage Stamp - Grenada Grenadines - 2000
Issued by Grenada as part of a series to commemorate the turn of the millennium, this postage stamp portrays Dante as he finishes writing the <em>Divina commedia</em>. At the top of the stamp is a caption as follows: "Dante completes The Divine Comedy 1321". Near the lower right corner of the stamp is the number "2" enclosed by a circle containing the word "MILLENNIUM". At the bottom are the country name, "GRENADA/CARRIACOU / & PETITE MARTINIQUE", and the denomination, "50¢".
Denomination: 50¢ (0.50 XCD)
Perforation: 12 ½ (comb)
Printing process: Offset lithography
English
Postage Stamp
Grenada Grenadines
Postage Stamp - Antigua and Barbuda - 2000
Issued as part of a series to commemorate the turn of the millennium, this postage stamp portrays Dante's lifelong love and muse, Beatrice Portinari, against an Italian landscape with a quotation in English from the <em>Vita nuova</em> (19:11): "So Cupid speaks of her: / How can something mortal / be so beautiful and pure? / Then again he looks at / her, and decides that God / meant to create / something new.". In the top right corner of the stamp is "MILLENNIUM 2000", in the lower left corner is "ANTIGUA & / BARBUDA", and in the lower right corner is "60¢".
Denomination: 60¢ (0.60 XCD)
Perforation: 12 ½ (comb)
Printing process: Offset lithography
English
Postage Stamp
Antigua and Barbuda