File:SUI 1862 MiNr0020b pm B002.jpg

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Stamp of Switzerland; 1862; definitive stamp of the issue "Sitting Helvetia"; stamp issue with value numbers in the upper corners; stamp from a stamp booklet; stamp postmarked in Chur (canton of the Grisons ("Kanton Graubünden"), Switzerland),
Stamp: Michel: No. 20b; Yvert et Tellier: No. 33; Scott: No. 41; Zumstein: No. 28
Color: grey on greyish paper
Watermark: Switzerland No. 1 (Swiss cross in standing double oval, embossed)
Nominal value: 2 (Rappen, Centimes)

Postage validity: from 1 October 1862 until 30 September 1883
date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1862-10-01T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+1883-09-30T00:00:00Z/11

Stamp picture size (printed area of a single stamp): 18.0 x 22.0 mm
Date (first issue day of the stamp)
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Author "Schweizerische Bundespost"
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Picture description Sitting Helvetia
First day of issue
Publisher "Schweizerische Bundespost"
Design Johann Adam Ries (1813-1889)
Printer "Eidgenössische Münzstätte", Berne (Switzerland)
Printing technique Letterpress and embossed printing, combined
Circulation 45,000,000 (total for all types of No. 20 from 1862-1863)
Perforation Comb perforation, K 11¾
MICHEL Nr. Schweiz, Nr. 20b
SCOTT Nr. Switzerland, No. 41

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