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33:1 36 2002
NEW ISSUES FOR 2001
Issue Date: 15 August 2001
The Holy Crown of Hungary
Face value: HUF 2001. Size: 105 x 75mm.
Designer: Imre Benedek, relief engraved by József Török. The design depicts
the Hungarian Crown superimposed on a map of Historical Hungary. The crown
was printed in relief using gold foil. A list of all of the places where
the crown was stored, including its next-to-last ‘home’ in exile in Ft. Knox,
KY, appears on the left side of the sheet. Also, a list of all crowned heads
of Hungary is printed on the sheet with UV-sensitive ink. The sheet was
perforated using a laser application. Additionally, the word POSTA appears
in the upper left corner if the sheet is held slanted to the light.
Production details: Printed using the offset method plus embossing by the
State Printing Office, Ltd. Total number of sheets issued with serial
numbers: 150,000.
Hungarian Statehood Millennium (2nd Series)
Face value: HUF 500 (10 x HUF 50). Size: 40 x 30mm (stamp), 214 x 50mm (small sheet).
Designer: Ferenc Svindt. The individual stamp designs, which are
complemented by designs in the sheet margins, depict persons from Hungarian
history from the 18th century through the 21st century, starting with Ferenc
Rákóczi’s manifesto through King Maria Theresia, Count István Széchenyi,
Lajos Kossuth, János Arany, Albert Szentgyörgyi, and Bishop Baron Vilmos
Apor. One stamp designs tells the tragic history of World War I and Trianon;
another, the horrible destruction of Hungary’s population and national wealth
wreaked by World War II; still another, the turbulent 1950s including the
brief encounter with freedom in October-November, 1956. For me, the last
stamp in the series is most emotionally charged: it depicts the Hungarian
Millennium Flag waving behind two smiling Hungarian children, looking into
the future; and, hopefully, halting the ethnographic decline of the Magyars.
Production details: Printed in offset by the Banknote printers, Ltd.
in an edition of 200,000 sheets.
Issue date: 17 August 2001
Hungarian Viniculture
Face value: HUF 60, 70. Size: 40 x 30mm.
Designer: Pál Varga. The designs depict clusters of grapes and other
characteristic views of the Pannonhalma-Sokoróalja and the Balatonboglár
grape-growing regions.
Production details: Printed sheets of 50 using offset by the State
Printing Office, Ltd. The total number of sets issued was 200,000.
Issue date: 9 October 2001
Charity and Good Will
Face value: HUF 10. Size: 31.7 x 26.7mm.
Designer: Imre Benedek, based on a photograph by József Hajdu. The
design of this definitive postage stamp reproduced the 30m2 size Guinness
World Record stamp mosaic created by Hungarian children under the sponsorship
of the Hungarian Post.
Production details: Printed in offset by the Banknote Printers, Ltd.
in quantities required by postal demand.
Issue date: 11 October 2001
Reconstruction of the Mária Valéria
Danube Bridge (joint issue with Slovakia)
Face value: HUF 36. Size: 45 x 26.7mm.
Designer: Péter Nagy. The design shows the rebuilt bridge spanning
the Danube with the Basilica of Esztergom in the background.
Production details: Printed in miniature sheets of 12 using offset
by the State Printing Office, Ltd. in an edition of 600,000 stamps.
Issue date: 16 October 2001
Christmas 2001
Face value: HUF 36. Size: 35 x 33.6mm.
Designer: Imre Benedek. The design depicts stylized Christmas ornaments
and an anger blowing a trumpet.
Production details: Printed using offset method by the Banknote
Printers, Ltd., in quantities required to meet postal demand.
Anniversary of the State Printing Office
Face value: HUF 150. Size: 30 x 40mm.
Designer: János Kass. The design shows the 2kr Ferenc Jozsef first
Hungarian stamp printed domestically and the anniversary dates for the
Printing Office.
Production details: Printed in offset by the State Printing Office,
Ltd. 200,000 stamps in sheets of 15 were produced.
Postal Stationery
The Hungarian Post issued an HUF 81 face value postal card with a pocket
to hold a HUF 200 medallion on 1 August 2001. The cards were designed by
Zsolt Tóth Yoka. The medallions are legal tender issues by the Hungarian
Nation Bank. Four different designs were created by László Szlávics, Jr.
depicting Hungarian literary masterpieces: Sándor Petöfi’s Brave János,
Ferenc Molnár’s The Boys of Paul-street, János Arany’s Toldi Trilogy, and
Mihály Fazekas’s Matyi the Gooseherder.
Three HUF 28 postal cards were issued on 15 August 2001 reproducing
illustrations from Pál Vágó’s award winning (grand prize at the 1900
Exposition in Paris) book, A huszárság története/History of the Hussars.
The 10,000 sets of cards were printed joined together, separated by serrations.
The set sold for HUF 129.
Non-postal Souvenir Sheets
Mabéosz issued a sheet depicting Mihály Munkácsy’s Trilogy of the Death
of Christ in order to support the effort to purchase the Golgotha painting
from abroad. The sheet sold for HUF 600.
Philatelia Hungarica, Ltd. issued several versions of a sheet honoring
the 70th anniversary of the Justice for Hungary flight. The perforated
sheet sold for HUF 300.
Philatelia Hungarica also issued a sheet in honor of the 100th
anniversary of the National Korányi Tuberculosis and Pulmonary Institute.
The perforated sheet sold for HUF 300.
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