Silver Jubilee Paper Money Fair – Set

Nafl.26.58

  • Date of Issue: April 11th, 2011
  • Designer: Studio La Branda
  • Face Value of Stamps : 63c – 75c – 112c – 175c – 200c – 250c – 300c – 350c – 475c – 500c.
  • Size of Stamps: 36 mm x 26 mm
  • Size of Image: 33 mm x 23 mm
  • Perforation of Stamps: 13 ¾ x 14
  • Gumming : Synthetic
  • Printing technique: offset
  • Paper: no watermark
  • Printer: Austrian Estate, Printing House

Description

Cpost International is proud to present this issue of 10 stamps dedicated to the Silver Jubilee of the Paper Money Fair, held in Maastricht, The Netherlands, n the 9th and 10th of April 2011. The Papermoney Fair, started as an initiatieve of 4 men, members of the IBSN. When this Exhibition took place for the first time on March 28th and 29th of 1987 – in Hotel Maastricht, back then under the name “European Continental Spring Paper Money Fair”, there were just 27 names of dealers in the program. During the years it has grown into the biggest event in Europe for the paper money collector.

63c Stamp – Banknote year 1947, value 1 guilder Curaçao depicting the roman messenger God Mercury, with its winged sandals,and a harbour scene.

75c Stamp – Banknote year 1970, value 2.50 guilders, Netherlands Antilles. Treasury note featuring the DC9 of the newly established Antillean Airline ALM.

112c Stamp – Banknote year 1958, value 5 guilders Curaçao, depicting images of the Pontoon Bridge “Emma Brug” and Handelskade Curacao.

175c Stamp – Banknote year 1948, value 10 guilders, Curaçao

200c Stamp – Banknote year 1970, value 1 guilder, Netherlands Antilles – depicting images of Curacao Drydock, the largest dock in the Caribbean

250c Stamp – Banknote year 1967, value 5 guilders, Netherlands Antilles. depicting images of the Pontoon Bridge “Emma Brug” and Handelskade Curacao.

300c Stamp – Banknote year 1979, value 25 guilders, Netherlands Antilles depicting a scene of the island of Bonaire.

350c Stamp – Banknote year 1972 , value 50 guilders Netherlands Antilles, depicting a scene of the Island of St. Maarten

475c Stamp – Banknote year 1967, value 250 guilders, Netherlands Antilles, designed by Oscar Ravelo, depicting the Autonomy Monument and a scene of the Island of Saba.

500c Stamp- Banknote year 1962, value 500 guilders Netherlands Antilles. The central image f this banknote is from the Oil Refinary in Curaçao