Show us your stamps!

I know this is Numista and not Philatelia, but I'm sure many people who collect coins also collect banknotes, or medals, or tokens, or, stamps.

I effectively doubled my British collection when a relative retired from the hobby and donated a sizeable selection of British and British colonial coins to my fledgeling collection, and with them came quite a few banknotes and stamps (also from Britain/British colonies).

Here are my best stamps from my tiny, but steadily growing stamps collection:

1840/41 Penny Black, Twopenny Blue, and Penny Red, all without perforations; Penny Black has a 'Maltese Cross'.


Victorian Lilac 'Draft Payable on Demand', with '12th July [18]66' written;
Cape of Good Hope Sixpence stamps 'Stamp Act of 1864'

I know next to nothing about stamps and the terms used in philately, including varieties in overprints and plate letters.

I do not collect stamps, but some coins I bought came with nice ones on the packaging ...



I got these two from Post Office ...

I still have a few from my older days that are now an extension of my numismatic hobby. I collect German Nazi coinage and medals, so I also have German Occupation stamps. And before someone blasts me for collecting these - NO, I am NOT a Nazi Sympathizer...:

German Occupation of Poland: 50 Groschen Hindenburg Overprint, issued 31-Dec-1939 (Scott-N25; Michel Deutschland-Spezial #9)

The initial Generalgouvernement issues were overprints of the German 1933-36 Hindenburg issues.



German Occupation of Poland: 8 Groschen Polish 20th Anniversary Overprint, issued Mar-1940 (Scott-N36; Michel Deutschland-Spezial #20)

In March 1940, the Generalgouvernement issued these overprints of Poland's 20th Anniversary Issues



German Occupation of Poland: Celebration of Hitler's 55th Birthday 84 Groszy + 1 Zł Stamps, issued 20-Apr-1944 (Scott-NB35; Michel Deutschland-Spezial #119)

The Generalgouvernement issued this set on 20 April 1944 to commemorate Hitler's 55th birthday.

To celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of the coronation of Rajendra Chola I:




Chola Empire: Rajendra Chola (1014-1044) AR Kahavanu (MCSI2-333, Biddulph-27)

Obv: Tiger seated right faces towards two upright fishes, bow behind, umbrella above. GanGai Konda / Chola - in Devanagari script below.
Reverse : As above

Sri Lanka Indigenous Coinage Stamps



Ceylon: Raja Raja Chola (ca. 985-1014) AV Kahavanu (MNI-825)

Obv: King seated right, with arm on right raised and holding sankh shell; Devanagari legend on right, below raised arm - श्री रज रज (Sri Raja Raja)
Rev: Standing king with ancillary symbols, to left and right




Arya Chakravartis of Jaffna: Anonymous (ca. 1284-1410) AE Massa (MNSI-862)

Obv: Seated king on left facing right with Tamil legend செது (SETU) vertically below his arm.
Rev: Standing king with crown consisting two lines and a dot, trident on left under raised right arm. A bull couchant vertically with a circle before it. All in bead circle. group of spheres on right, surmounted by crescent.

Lovely examples as usual from Ceylon...

I've been trying to get the admins to make a separate issuer for pre-1500 Ceylonese coins, given that they're not very closely related to the colonial-era coins that make up the majority of Ceylon in the Numista Catalog.

I previously had five books and boxes full of stamps that I gave to my little sister last year ago because I kind of stopped this hobby and my sister likes it. I began in 2006, I remember this because my first stamp was a New-Caledonia stamp for the world cup lol. Nonetheless I still have some. I'll do some pics when I can.
I remember when I was like 13 on a flea market I bought for 1€ a very old album with only pre-1900 stamps from various countries that mostly doesn't exist anymore (not many and not valuable but still that was cool, even the album itself is nice).

I especially like the pre-1900 stamps like the Victoria pennys you got or German states stamps. I don't know why but I like "bichromal" stamps. I don't like very much the colourful stamps after the 70's with everything and nothing on it, like dogs, flowers or other things that are not related on the country that issued it.

I don't do much with stamps much anymore. But here's a few from the kingdom of Hawaii


But I really like this 8 dollar Canadian bear stamp ,very large.

Here an odd thing I found in a junk shop.6 stamps from Ajman Christmas 1969 . IT cost Cr$ 12.00.
12 cruzeiro It came all the way from Sao Paulo , Brazil. How it came here to Oshkosh most be a story

I think I got for next to nothing

A few Vatican stamps that went along in the souvenir package with the coins. Travelled there back when John Paul II reigned.

A few Soviet and (sorry for Nazism and fascism) Hitler stamps that were commemorative. Also have full set of communist leaders like Lenin, Stalin, Marx, Engels, Ho Chi Minh and Mao.

I do not collect stamps, though.

Citeer: "ALLRED1950"​Here an odd thing I found in a junk shop.6 stamps from Ajman Christmas 1969 . IT cost Cr$ 12.00.
​12 cruzeiro It came all the way from Sao Paulo , Brazil. How it came here to Oshkosh most be a story
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​I think I got for next to nothing

​Probably the previous owner bought them in São Paulo in the 70's and traveled to the US with it. And this is only the start.

The letter is actually a store announcement ("Stamps, albums, philatelic material national and imported." Matex V albums you find at fair prices at M. A. Teixeira & Cia. Ltda." Largo Paissandú is a place in the São Paulo central area).

Nice find anyways.

You know how people say coins are cheaper versions of museum antiques, stuff that average people with an interest in history can own a piece of it by collecting? Stamps are kind of (most of the time) an even more affordable version of that.

Here are some more from my collection, specifically South Africa (they're kind of like the Belgium of stamps; you have to effectively collect their issues twice as a type collector, given the issues being in two languages (English and Afrikaans).


If anyone can to identify these two for me, please do it; I'm almost illiterate in stamps outside Europe


ZAR Issues, with 'E.R.I.' Overprints.

A bit of San Marino :)

About 200 of these from the grand duchy of Finland.

Citeer: "CassTaylor"​I know this is Numista and not Philatelia, but I'm sure many people who collect coins also collect banknotes, or medals, or tokens, or, stamps.

​Have you seen those ones in Madrid shop? I've got some for very low value and add 4 or 5 to Numista.

I do not collect stamps but I like them, 2 years ago I went to Asunción and spend some very nice holliday there and on my last days I decided to go to the central post office, I asked for stamps (note that I do not speak spanish..) and the woman at the entrance sent me to the second floor of the building to ask for the collectors division. A nice guy welcome me and let me discover his office. It was like going back to the 70. It look a bit messy and old but with stamps books everywhere ! I spent almost 2 hours there and it's one of my best holliday time.

@Indomini16
Yes I did see them in the Madrid shops, but I was focusing too much on completing my type set of regular Spanish issues to spend any money on those at all.