Odd Shaped Stamps - Update

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USA 2000 Exploring the Solar System Pentagon shaped stamps 

Issue date 11 July 2000 

First pentagonal postage stamps issued by USPS. The souvenir sheet shows Earth's moon, Saturn, and a multitude of stars. Each stamp features a different representation of the sun. 
  Clockwise, from the top, the stamps show: 

- the sun's corona at the peak of an eclipse; 
- an artist's representation of the cross-section of the sun's interior; 
- a computer-enhanced NASA photograph taken from space of a sunrise over Earth; 
- image recorded from the Skylab space station of a solar eruption; 
- and an Earth-based photograph of the sun shining through a cloud-dotted sky. 

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3D - Holographic Stamps - Update

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USA 2000 Landing on the moon Hologram stamp

Issue date 8 July 2000

To commemorate the Apollo space program which landed the first man on the moon, USPS issued a souvenir sheet with a special stamp with hologram with Express Postage rate of USD 11.75. An April 1972 photo taken by Apollo 16 mission commander John Young is shown on the souvenir sheet of lunar module pilot Charles M. Duke, Jr., collecting samples near the Plum crater. The hologram on the stamp shows the image of a lunar lander hovering just above the moon's surface.

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3D - Holographic Stamps

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