Unusual Postal Souvenirs - Update

Category - Sight / Touch
Subcategory - Unusual Postal Souvenirs/Stamp with NFC/Stamp with LED

Poland 2022 200 Years of Rozewie Lighthouse Stamp Folder 

Issue date 10 September 2022

Poland Post to commemorate the 200 Years of Rozewie Lighthouse with a miniature sheet. The Lighthouse located on the Kashubian Baltic Coast on Cape Rozewie in Poland. 

A special folder was also issued along with a cancelled souvenir polycarbonate stamp with a special Yellow LED which lights up when a NFC activated Smart phone is brought close to the Souvenir Stamp sheet. This polycarbonate souvenir Stamp cannot be used for Postage and is a replica of the Normal stamp sheet produced (Bottom miniature sheet in the folder).The stamp souvenir is pre cancelled (Stamp value is struck out by 2 wavy design cancel), does not have perforations and made of polycarbonate materials with an embedded NFC chip and micro LED attached. The normal souvenir Stamp however does not have the LED attached (Top miniature sheet in the folder). The folder does say the polycarbonate stamp is a stamp.

Portugal Post issue a similar stamp in 2019 with a flashing LED activated by NFC technology which can be used for postage.

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Unusual Postal Souvenir

Stamps with NFC Technology

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Silver Stamps - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Silver Stamps

Poland 2003 Pope John-Paul II 25th year (Joint issue with Vatican City) Silver Stamp       

Issue date 20 March 2003 

The Poland Philatelic Office along with the Vatican Philatelic Office, for the first time in their history, issued a silver postage stamp to mark the 25th year of Pope John Paul's papacy, depicting Pope John Paul, with the words "Citta del Vaticano" and in the lower, left corner, the Pope's coat-of-arms.

Vatican 2003 Pope John-Paul II 25th year (Joint issue with Poland) Silver Stamp  

Issue date 20 March 2003

The  Vatican Philatelic Office along with the Poland Philatelic Office, for the first time in their history, issued a silver postage stamp to mark the 25th year of Pope John Paul's papacy, depicting Pope John Paul, with the words "Citta del Vaticano" and in the lower, left corner, the Pope's coat-of-arms.

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Silver Stamps


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