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A chronological listing of world postage stamps depicting coins.
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1954 January 5
Israel
80-, 95-, 100-, and 125-prutot postage stamps depict various ancient Judean coins.
Catalog numbers: Scott 80-83
Approximate value: US$0.80 (Scott 2010).
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1954 January 15
Greece
1000-drachma postage stamp depicts a coin of Alexander the Great.
Catalog numbers: Scott 561
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1954 (month unknown)
Italy
13-lira postage stamp depicts a Syracusean coin.
Catalog numbers: Scott 628A
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1954 March 20
Italy
25-lira postage stamp depicts a Syracusean coin.
Catalog numbers: Scott 651
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1954 May 15
Greece
5th anniversary of the signing of the North Atlantic treaty.
2400-drachma airmail postage stamp depicts a coin of the Amphictyonic League.
Catalog numbers: Scott C72
Approximate value: US$2.50 (Scott 2010).
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1954 December 28
Italy
100- and 200-lira postage stamps depict a Syracusean coin.
Catalog numbers: Scott 661-662
Approximate value: US$0.80 (Scott 2010).
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1955 March 15
Italy
25-lira postage stamp depicts a Syracusean coin.
Catalog numbers: Scott 691
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1955 August 1
Cyprus
25-millieme postage stamp depicts a coin of Paphos;
500-millieme stamp depicts four coin devices of Cyprus;
1-pound stamp depicts four coin devices of Byzantium, Lusignan, Ottoman Empire, and Venice.
Catalog numbers: Scott 174,181-82; Stanley Gibbons 179,186-87
Approximate value: US$43.70 (Scott 2014).
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1955 (month unknown)
Greece
2-drachma postage stamp depicts a coin of Alexander the Great.
Catalog numbers: Scott 578
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1955 August 20
Greece
2500th anniversary of the founding of the first school of philosophy on Samos.
2- and 5-drachma stamps depict a coin of Samos.
Catalog numbers: Scott 582,584
Approximate value: US$2.40 (Scott 2010).
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1956 (month unknown)
Greece
For archaeological research in Macedonia.
50-lepta postal tax stamp depicts Zeus on a Macedonian coin of Philip II;
1-drachma postal tax stamp depicts Aristotle on a coin.
Catalog numbers: Scott RA90-RA91
Approximate value: US$1.45 (Scott 2010).
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1956 (month unknown)
Italy
15-lira postage stamp depicts a Syracusean coin.
Catalog numbers: Scott 679
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1956 July 28
Argentina
75th anniversary of the Argentine Mint.
2-peso postage stamp depicts Argentina 1881 1-peso coin.
Catalog numbers: Michel 638; Scott 650; Stanley Gibbons 885
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1956 October 1
China (People's Republic)
Promoting savings.
4- and 8-fen postage stamps depict ancient coins.
Catalog numbers: Scott 299-300
Approximate value: US$3 (Scott 2014).
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1957 March 5
Colombia
25th anniversary (in 1956) of Agrarian Savings Bank of Colombia.
1- and 5-centavo stamps depict depositing coin in a savings bank.
Catalog numbers: Scott 670,671
Approximate value: US$0.50 (Scott 2014).
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1957 (month unknown)
Italy
6-lira postage stamp depicts a Syracusean coin.
Catalog numbers: Scott 675
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1958 January 6
Bermuda
9-pence postage stamp depicts early hog coin of Sommer Islands.
Catalog numbers: Scott 154; Stanley Gibbons 143b
Approximate value: US$3.50 (Scott 2010).
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1958 June 20
Germany (Federal Republic)
19th anniversary of German currency reform.
20-pfennig postage stamp depicts a 5-mark coin.
Catalog numbers: Scott 787
Approximate value: US$0.60 (Scott 2010).
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1958 December 18
Chile
100th anniversary of the Savings Bank for Public Employees.
10-peso stamp depicts symbolic coin dropping into a savings bank.
Catalog numbers: Scott 304
Approximate value: US$0.25 (Scott 2014).
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1958 (month unknown)
Italy
1-, 50-, and 90-lira postage stamps depict a Syracusean coin.
Catalog numbers: Scott 673B,683,687
Approximate value: US$0.60 (Scott 2010).
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1959 (month unknown)
Greece
2.50-drachma postage stamp depicts a coin of Alexander the Great.
Catalog numbers: Scott 638
Approximate value: US$0.30 (Scott 2010).
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1959 (month unknown)
Italy
100- and 200-lira postage stamps depict a Syracusean coin.
Catalog numbers: Scott 787-788
Approximate value: US$0.40 (Scott 2010).
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1959 November 4
Tunisia
First anniversary of the Central Bank of Tunisia.
50-millime stamp depicts a coin.
Catalog numbers: Michel 548; Scott 365; Yvert 501; Stanley Gibbons 510
Approximate value: US$0.65 (Scott 2010).
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1959 December 1
Portuguese India
Coins from the Reign of Manuel I (1495-1521) up to the Republic.
5-, 10-, 15-, 30-, 40-, 50-, 60-, 80-centavos and 1-, 1.5-, 2-, 2.5-, 3-, 4-, 4.4-, 5-, 10-, 20-, 30-, 50-escudos postage stamps depict coins.
Catalog numbers: Michel 567-82; Scott 598-617; Stanley Gibbons 693-708
Approximate value: US$13 (Scott 2010).
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1959 December 20
Italy
15-lira postage stamp depicts a 1953 Italy postage stamp which depicts a Syracusean coin.
Catalog numbers: Scott 793
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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