Title
Postage Stamp - Italy - 2009
Type
Postage Stamp
Coverage
Italy
Date Issued
2009-05-09
Description
This postage stamp was issued to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Accademia di studi italo-tedeschi/Akademie Deutsch-Italienischer Studien in Merano, Italy. The stamp shows the academy's logo consisting of overlapping profile portraits of Dante and German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe within a circle. At the top of the stamp is text as follows: "ACCADEMIA DI STUDI ITALO-TEDESCHI / AKADEMIE DEUTSCH-ITALIENISCHER STUDIEN / 1959-2009 / MERANO MERAN" (Academy for Italian-German Studies, Merano). Along the bottom edge of the stamp is the abbreviated name of the printer: "I.P.Z.S. S.p.A. - ROMA - 2009" (Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato) and the designer: "A.M. MARESCA" (Anna Maria Maresca).
Denomination: € 0,60 (0.60 EUR)
Perforation: 13 × 13 ¼ (comb)
Printing process: Four-color rotogravure
Print run: 3,500,000
Extent
30 × 40 mm
Bibliographic Citation
Michel no. 3298
Sassone no. 3088
Scott no. 2929
Contributor
Anna Maria Maresca
Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato (Rome, Italy)
Language
German
Italian