Kazakhstan 1994 "Prehistoric animals"


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Issue Date 24.11.1994
ID Michel: 62-67, Bl.3 (68); Scott: 90-95, 96; Stanley Gibbons: 60-65, MS66 ; Yvert et Tellier: 35-40, BF2 Category: pR
Design A. Yackevich
Stamps in set 6 + 1 Block
Value 1 T. - Entelodon
1.20 T. - Saurolophus
2 T. - Plesiosaurus
3 T. - Sordes pilosus
5 T. - Mosasaurus
7 T. - Megaloceros giganteus
Souvenir-Sheet: 10 T. - Coelodonta antiquitatis.
Emission/Type commemorative
Issue place Almaty
Size (width x height) stamps: 42 x 30mm, Souvenir-Sheet: 91mm x 70mm
Layout 25 stamps (5x5) per sheet
Products FDC x1
Paper coated paper
Perforation 12.5 x 12
Print Technique Multicolor, offset
Printed by Goznak, Moscow, Russia
Quantity stamps: 1.500.000, 1.100.000, 900.000, 650.000, 550.000, 200.000.
Souvenir-Sheet: 100.000
Issuing Authority Kazpost (JSC Kazpost,Kazpost)
Prehistoric animals on stamps of Kazakhstan 1994

On October 24th, 1994, the Post Authority of Kazakhstan issued a set of 6 stamps and a block dedicated to prehistoric animals that once roamed the territory of modern Kazakhstan. Fossils of these animals are on show in Museum of Nature.

Note: names of some animals are misspelled Megaloceros giganteus is Megaloceros giganteum, Coelodonta is misspelled Koelodonta. Moreover, Saurolophus and Sordes are shown with tails that are too flexible.



Products and associated philatelic items

FDC First-Day-of-Issue Postmark
Prehistoric animals on FDC of Kazakhstan 1994 Prehistoric animals on FDC of Kazakhstan 1994 Prehistoric animals on commemorative postmark of Kazakhstan 1994
Example of Sheet of Stamps Example of circulated covers
Prehistoric animals on stamps of Kazakhstan 1994 Stamps of Prehistoric animals on circulated cover of Kazakhstan Stamps of Prehistoric animals on circulated cover of Kazakhstan
Stamps of Prehistoric animals on circulated cover of Kazakhstan Stamps of Prehistoric animals on circulated cover of Kazakhstan Stamps of Prehistoric animals on circulated cover of Kazakhstan





References:
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  • Technical details and official press release:
    Online store of Kazpost (the article doesn't exist anymore), StampedOut, colnect.
  • Prehistoric Fauna of Kazakhstan:
    caravan.kz (Russian)


Acknowledgements:
  • Many thanks to Dr. Peter Voice from Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Western Michigan University, for review of a draft of this article.


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