Stamps by countries | Europa | Spain | 1989
World Cultural Heritage (4 stamps in set).

Stamp: Cave of Altamira
Edition type: commemorative stamp
Denomination: 20 (Pta)
Date of issue: 1989 Dec. 5
Depiction: Cave painting, Steppe Wisent
Colour: multicolored
Paper: phosphorescent
Designer:
Perforation: comb. 12,75
Printing process: steel gravure combined with offset
Size of a stamp (mm): 50×33
Size of a sheet (mm):
Sheet composition:
Printing run: 3 000 000
Stamp issuing authority: Correos Y Telegrafos SA
Printer: Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre (F.N.M.T.)
  Special cancellation (ink - black, cancelations in Santillana del Mar and Madrid) and art envelope were used in first day of issue.
 
 
Steppe Wisent is a fragment of Polychrome Ceiling of the Great Hall caves of Altamira, Spain and location of the fragment represented on the stamp.
 
Themes: steppe wisent (Bison priscus), cave art
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