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Costa Rica has produced its own stamps since 1863. [1] First series of 1863. The first issue of stamps was printed by the American Bank Note Co., and consisted of values "Medio Real " (Blue), "Dos Reales" (Red), "Cuatro Reales" (Green) and "Un Peso" (Orange). In 1883, following the change in currency from Reales to the new Pesos and Centavos ...
The Society of Costa Rica Collectors (SOCORICO) (founded 1963) is an international philatelic society dedicated to the study of the postage stamps and postal history of Costa Rica. SOCORICO is affiliate No. 96 of the American Philatelic Society. [1] The society journal, The Oxcart, has been published since 1960 and succeeded the Costa Rican ...
Dionisio de Herrera, head of state of Honduras and head of state of Nicaragua (1971) Rubén Odio H., archbishop of San José (1962) Vicente Herrera Zeledón, president of Costa Rica, 1876-77 (1946, 1961) Rowland Hill, postal reformer and originator of the postage stamp (1979)
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A new forever postage stamp bearing the portrait of former first lady Betty Ford was unveiled Wednesday afternoon in the East Room of the White House. Ford, who died in 2011, was an advocate for ...
A 1922 stamp of La Aguera. In June 1920, Spain issued postage stamps of its existing colony Río de Oro overprinted "LA AGÜERA", and followed those up in 1922 with a series portraying King Alfonso XIII and inscribed "SAHARA OCCIDENTAL / LA AGÜERA". [1] These were superseded in 1924 by stamps of Spanish Sahara, as La Güera was incorporated to ...
However, this legislation was set to expire in April 2016. As a result, the Post Office retained one cent of the price change as a previously allotted adjustment for inflation, but the price of a first-class stamp became 47 cents: for the first time in 97 years (and for the fourth time in the agency's history) the price of a stamp decreased ...
The Cerro Chato, also known as the Chato Volcano is a dormant volcano that first erupted 38,000 years ago and last erupted 3,500 years ago. One of its eruptions paved the way for the nearby La Fortuna Waterfall. Cerro Chato has two peaks, Chatito (little Chato) and Espina (Thorn), as well as a 1,640-ft (500-m) crater filled with green water.