Romfilatelia has launched its 2020 Holy Easter stamp collection.
The perforated souvenir sheet with the face value of Lei 29 illustrates the Palm Sunday scene, Romfilatelia reports.
The two postage stamps of the issue (with a face value of Lei 1.90 each) reproduce the images of the “The Last Supper” and “The Holy Myrrhbearing Women at the Holy Grave” icons, which are in the patrimony of the “Radu Voda” Monastery in Bucharest.
The philatelic album is created into a limited edition of 377 pieces and is equipped with a special philatelic block with two perforated postage stamps and the First Day Cover with the First Day postmark clearly imprinted with gold foiling. Both products are numbered from 001 to 377.
The album contains the two perforated postage stamps reproduced separately on two gummed sheets, in a graphic association with the images of the thematic icons of the issue, icons belonging to the patrimony of the Radu Voda Monastery in Bucharest.
The special product, with silver stamp, brings together in an original presentation a collectible philatelic block with two imperforated stamps), made in a limited edition of 327 copies, Certificate of Authenticity issued by the State Mint, numbered from 001 to 327, as well as the silver replica of the postage stamp that illustrates the icon the Myrrh-Bearing Women at the Tomb.
Icons whose images are reproduced in the album are part of the patrimony of the Radu Voda Monastery in Bucharest.
The postage stamps issue “Holy Easter 2020” will be available on Thursday, March 12ve 2020, in Romfilatelia’s shops network in Bucharest, Bacau, Brasov, Cluj-Napoca, Iasi and Timisoara and online on romfilatelia.ro/store.
Photography courtesy of Romfilatelia
