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The Vatican post office has operated its own postal service and issued its own postage stamps since 1929. The postal history of Vatican City begins shortly after its official foundation on 11 February 1929. Two days later, the Vatican post office began operating with supplies and equipment donated by the Italian government.
The Philatelic and Numismatic Office of the Vatican City State ( Italian: Ufficio Filatelico e Numismatico ), managed by Poste Vaticane, is responsible for issuing Vatican postal stamps and Vatican coins. The office was created on 11 February 1929 in the nations founding, and issued the first of the nations postal stamps on 1 August of the same ...
The use of stamps was introduced in the Vatican in 1852. [1] Poste Vaticane was created in 1929 following the Lateran Treaty. [1] It started operations on 1 August 1929 [2] (or February 1929). Its yellow mail boxes became iconic in the landscape of the papal city. [1] The Poste Vaticane also handled the state's telegraph communications.
The contract with Count Sparre was annulled in March 1863, and a new contract was given to the British printing house De La Rue. A series of eight stamps with the inscription “Poste italiane” in denominations from 1 centesimo to 2 lira was issued on December 1, 1863. Italy joined the Universal Postal Union on 1 July 1875.
Postage stamp demonetization. The demonetization of postage and revenue stamps is the process by which the stamps are rendered no longer valid. In general, stamp demonetization is a rare event, since any unused stamp is effectively equivalent to its face value, and there is no financial disadvantage if postal customers use old stamps on their ...
I reverted the name back to the original format: "Postage stamps and postal history of XX". This is the naming format used for stamp and postal history articles throughout this wiki and complies with the other articles of the same type within the Philately WikiProject. See Category:Postage stamps by country.
The Gibraltar-Vatican Joint Issue is a postage stamp that was released by Vatican City and the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar in 2009. It commemorated the septcentenary of the devotion to Our Lady of Europe. The image on the stamp was a photograph of the statue of the Virgin and Child found in the Shrine of Our Lady of Europe at Europa ...
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