Stamps by countries | Europa | Russia | 2019
The 100th Anniversary of Russian Academic Archaeology (4 stamps in set).
Stamp: Zaraisk. Figurine "Bizon". XX thousand BC e.
Edition type: commemorative stamp
Denomination: 40 (rub.)
Date of issue: 2019 Aug. 26
Depiction: Statuette of a steppe wisent
Colour: multicolored
Paper: chalky
Designer: A. Moscovets
Perforation: comb. 12:11,25
Printing process: offset
Size of a stamp (mm): 50×37
Size of a sheet (mm): 120×168
Sheet composition: 8 (2×4) марок
Printing run: 50 000
Stamp issuing authority: Russian Post
Printer: Goznak's Moscow printing factory
  Special cancellations (ink - black) and art envelope were used in first day of issue in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Petrozavodsk.
 
    The stamp also was issued as a souvenir set in the cover. The cover is double-leaf, folded size: 190×260 mm. The stamps are additionally covered with a stencil varnish (2nd form of issue), imitating the stone surface. Quantity of the souvenir set is 5500. The cover and the inside are shown.
 
    On other stamps of the miniature sheet:
40 rub. - Figure of a woman, IV millennium BC e.;
40 rub. - Figurine "Fish", II millennium BC. e.;
40 rub. - White Sea petroglyphs, IV millennium BC. e.
Themes: Steppe Wisent (Bison priscus), Cave Art
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