Catalogue information

LastDodo number
343365
Area
Stamps
Title
Gregorian calendar
Face value
60
Country / area
Year
1982
Month
10
Day
14
Order Number in Issue
1
Basic colour
Usage
Type
Geographical theme
Item subject
Verklaring van de Gregoriaanse kalender door Johannes Rasch, 1586
Michel number
1155
Yvert number
987
Scott number
1383
Stanley Gibbons number
2009
Luminescence
Printing technique
Print run
31.750.000
Dimensions / diameter
28 x 33 mm
Details

Published on the occasion of the four hundredth anniversary of the Gregorian Calendar. The Gregorian calendar, named after Pope Gregory XIII who proclaimed it in 1582, is the official calendar in almost all countries of the world, although there are countries that also use a different calendar for religious purposes.

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