Page 11 - Greece - The Landscape Issues

Greece: The Landscape Issues 5 Lepta - 1927

Printed on both sides, on gum side only & newspaper rate

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The five lepta stamp on a newspaper, ca ncelled at Aegion in the

Peloponnese on 2 August 1936, two days before the Metaxas dictatorship
sent to Rododaphne, paying the newspaper rate at the time. This was the
intended rate for the 1 lepton stamp that was never used.
A block of eighteen stamps from the left side of the sheet, showing the

only recorded example ofthe st amp being printed on the gum side ONLY.