Christmas 2009 – New stamps from Malta
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This year’s Christmas set will be issued by MaltaPost’s Philatelic Bureau on Monday 30th November 2009. The set depicts images of three nativity paintings from the National Museum of Fine Arts in Valletta and from a private collection. The stamps were designed in-house by MaltaPost and have values of Euro 0.19, Euro 0.37, Euro 0.63. Together with the stamps, this year MaltaPost is issuing a Christmas card to complement this set. —splitterQSWEDFR—This year’s Christmas set will be issued by MaltaPost’s Philatelic Bureau on Monday 30th November 2009.
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