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Souvenir sheet. World Cultural Heritage. Cave of Altamira. Cantabria.

Stamp: Cave painting of Altamira
Edition type: commemorative stamp
Denomination: 3 €
Date of issue: 2015 Apr. 27
Depiction: Coin by value 2 € with image of the steppe wisent. Cave painting on margin of the sheet - steppe wisent.
Colour: multicolored
Paper: phosphorescent
Design: Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre
Perforation: round stamp
Printing process: offset, copper engraving, varnishing
Size of a stamp (mm): round 32
Size of a sheet (mm): 150×104,5
Sheet composition: 1 stamp
Printing run: 280 000
Stamp issuing authority: Correos Y Telegrafos SA
Printer: Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre
  Special cancellation (ink - black) and art envelope were used in first day of issue.
 
  Steppe Wisents are a fragment of Polychrome Ceiling of the Great Hall caves of Altamira, Spain.
Localisation of the fragment represented on the stamp.
Themes: steppe wisent (Bison priscus), cave art, coins on stamp
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