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A chronological listing of world postage stamps depicting coins.
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1954 January 15
Greece
1000-drachma postage stamp depicts a coin of Alexander the Great.
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1954 (month unknown)
Italy
13-lira postage stamp depicting a Syracusean coin.
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1954 March 20
Italy
25-lira postage stamp depicting a Syracusean coin.
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1954 May 15
Greece
2400-drachma airmail postage stamp marking the 5th anniversary of the signing of the North Atlantic treaty.
The stamp depicts a coin of the Amphictyonic League.
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1954 December 28
Italy
Two postage stamps depict a Syracusean coin.
Stamp denominations are 100 and 200 lira.
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1955 March 15
Italy
25-lira postage stamp depicting a Syracusean coin.
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1955 August 1
Cyprus
25-milliemes postage stamp depicts a coin of Paphos.
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1955 (month unknown)
Greece
2-drachma postage stamp depicts a coin of Alexander the Great.
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1955 August 20
Greece
Two postage stamps marking the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the first school of philosophy on Samos.
The 2- and 5-drachma stamps depicts a coin of Samos.
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1956 (month unknown)
Greece
Two postal tax stamps for archaeological research in Macedonia.
50-lepta stamp depicts Zeus on a Macedonian coin of Philip II;
1-drachma stamp depicts Aristotle on a coin.
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1956 (month unknown)
Italy
15-lira postage stamp depicts a Syracusean coin.
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1956 July 28
Argentina
2-peso postage stamp commorating the 75th anniversary of the Argentine Mint.
Stamp depicts 1881 1 peso coin.
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1956 October 1
China
Two postage stamps, 4 and 8 fen, promoting savings, depict ancient coins.
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1957 (month unknown)
Italy
6 lira postage stamp depicts a Syracusean coin.
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1958 June 20
Germany
20 pfennig postage stamp marking the 19th anniversary of German currency reform.
The stamp depicts a 5-mark coin.
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1958 (month unknown)
Bermuda
9-p3.50ence postage stamp depicts early hog coin of Sommer Islands.
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1959 (month unknown)
Greece
2.50 drachma postage stamp depicts a coin of Alexander the Great.
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1959 (month unknown)
Italy
Two postage stamps depict a Syracusean coin.
Stamp denominations are 100 and 200 lira.
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1959 November 4
Tunisia
First anniversary of the Central Bank of Tunisia.
50-millimes stamp depicts a coin.
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1959 December 1
Portuguese India
Twenty postage stamps depict coins from the Reign of Manuel I (1495-1521) up to the Republic.
5-, 10-, 15-, 30-, 40-, 50-, 60-, 80-centavos;
1-, 1.5-, 2-, 2.5-, 3-, 4-, 4.4-, 5-, 10-, 20-, 30-, 50-escudos.
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1959 December 20
Italy
15 lira postage stamp depicts a 1953 Italy postage stamp which depicts a Syracusean coin.
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