Romania stamps

P=have O=don’t have it

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, north of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea. Almost all of the Danube Delta is located within its territory. Romania shares a border with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova to the northeast, and Bulgaria to the south.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania

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Scott: #421-7P

Issued: 20.11.1932

75th Anniversary, First Moldovian Stamps

Inside #421: Romania Type A2O (B) (Pic of #5)

Inside #422-4, #426-7: Romania Type A1O (B) (Pic of #1)

Inside #425: Romania Type A3O (B) (Pic of #11)

Scott: #428O

Inside #428: Romania Type A25P (B) (Pic of #161P)

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Scott: #B425P

Issued: 27.1.1950

Bucharest Philatelic Exhibition

Inside #B425: Romania #4O (B)

Inside #B425: Romania #698GP (B) – Changed color

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Scott: #1252-9P

Issued: 15.11.1958

Centenary of Romanian Stamps

Inside #1252: Stamp Printing

Inside #1255: Stamp on Envelope

Inside #1253, #1256: Romania #1O

Inside #1257: Romania #2O

Inside #1258: Romania #4O

Inside #1259: Romania #3O

#C57O

Inside #C57, #C57-1: Romania #1aO

The Souvenir Sheets shows the only known tête-bêche pair of 27 parale, conserved at the Library of the Romanian Academy

#C57-1O

Romania #C57 in Dull Red and Imperf

#C57-2P

Romania #C57 Overprint in 1959 in vermilion to commemorate the 10^th anniversary of the State Philatelic Trade

Issued: 25.4.1959

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UnlistedP, UnlistedP

Issued: 15.11.1958

Poster Stamp - Cinderella - Romania Bucharest Centenary Postage

Inside: Romania #1O

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Scott: #1297P

Issued: 15.11.1959

Stamp Day

Inside #1297: Stamp Collecting

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Scott: #C111P

Issued: 15.11.1961

Stamp Day

Inside #C111: Romania #923P

Inside #C111: Romania #C49P

Inside #C111: Romania #791?? - TBI

Inside #C111: Romania #698A?? - TBI

Inside #C111: Romania #797O

Inside #C111: Romania #1381P

Inside #C111: Romania #?? - TBI

Inside #C111: Romania #?? - TBI

Inside #C111: Romania #CB11?? - TBI

Inside #C111: Romania #?? - TBI

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Scott: #C119-22P

Issued: 27.7.1962

Peaceful Space Exploration

Inside #C119: Romania #C49P

Inside #C119: Romania #C51P

Inside #C119: Romania #C56P

Inside #C120: Romania #C73P

Inside #C120: Romania #C74P

Inside #C120: Romania #C75P

Inside #C121: Romania #1200P

Inside #C121: Romania #C58P

Inside #C121: Romania #C88P

Inside #C122: Romania #C104P

Inside #C122: Romania #C109P

Inside #C122: Romania #C110P

Scott: #C122aP

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Scott: #C127P

Issued: 15.11.1962

Stamp Day

Inside #C127 (On Label): Romania #14O

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Scott: #C128P

Issued: 30.3.1963

Romanian Philatelists' Association Conference - Overprint #C127

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Scott: #C146-50P, #CB22P

Issued: 15.11.1963

15th UPU Congress

Inside #C146: Romania #1256P

Inside #C147: Romania #1200P

Inside #C148: Romania #C104aP

Inside #C149: Romania #C123P

Inside #C149: Romania #C125P

Inside #C150: Romania #965P

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Inside #???: Romania #159O (Modified)

Inside #???: Romania #14O

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Scott: #B427O

Issued: 15.11.1968

Stamp Day

Inside #B427: Romania Type A1O

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Scott: #B428P

Issued: 15.11.1969

Stamp Day

Inside #B428: Romania #1-4O

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Scott: #2162P

Issued: 19.4.1970

Franco-Romanian Maximafil Philatelic Exhibition

Inside #2162: Romania #2162

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Scott: #B429P

Issued: 15.11.1970

Stamp Day

Inside #B429: Romania #5O

Inside #B429: Romania #6O

Inside #B429: Romania #7O

http://www.artonstamps.org/Art-Gallery/Coach/coaches.htm

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Scott: #B430P

Issued: 15.11.1971

Stamp Day

Inside #B430 (On Label): Romania #12O

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Scott: #2347P

Issued: 25.7.1972

Centenary of the Stamp Printing Office

Inside #2347: Stamp Printing

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Scott: #2405P

Issued: 19.2.1973

Publicity for Philatelic Exhibition

Inside #2405: Pseudo Stamp

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Scott: #2442AP

Issued: 15.11.1973

Stamp Day

Inside #2442A (On Label): Romania Type A1O

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Scott: #2486-91PP

Issued: 11.5.1974

Centenary, UPU

Inside #2491: Stamp Collecting

Scott: #2492P

Inside #2492: Stamp on Envelope

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Scott: #J133P, #J134P

Issued: 1.1.1974

Postage Due

Inside #J133-4: Pseudo Stamp

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Scott: #2542P

Issued: 15.3.1975

Espana '75

Inside #2542 (In logo in margin): Pseudo Stamp

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Scott: #2543P

Issued: 26.3.1975

Introduction of Postal Code System

Inside #2543: Stamp on Envelope

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Scott: #C213P

Issued: 25.7.1977

Definitive

Inside #C213: Stamp on Envelope

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Scott: #2730P

Issued: 28.8.1977

Centenary of San Marino Stamps

Inside #2730: Pseudo Stamp

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Scott: #C214P

Issued: 10.9.1977

Definitive

Inside #C214: Stamp on Envelope

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Michel Block #155P

Unlisted in Scott

Issued: 16.10.1978

Essen ’78 Exhibition

Inside Michel Block #155: Michel #3274 from Block 122O

Low wrote: This is another Romania issue not listed in Scott under their “limited distribution” policy, but 70,000 numbered s/s were issued, and it is often offered online for lower prices than it originally was sold for. The reproduced stamp is also unlisted for the same reason, but that s/s with an issue of 38,500, is much more expensive.

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #2971P

Issued: 18.9.1980

Romanian - Chinese Philatelic Exhibit

Inside #2971: Stamp Collecting

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Michel Block #183P

Issued: 28.10.1981

“For Peace in Europe” - Publicity: European Security and Cooperation Conference

Inside Michel Block #183: Mi 3284 from s/s Mi Bl 125, 1975

Inside Michel Block #183: Mi 3438 from s/s Mi Bl 144, 1977

Inside Michel Block #183: Mi 3746 from s/s Mi Bl 175, 1980

Scott doesn’t list any of these under their “limited and controlled issue” category— Block 183 had an issue of 39,500 numbered s/s.

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #3034O

Issued: 5.11.1981

Stamp Day

Inside #3034: Stamp Collecting

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Scott: #3092-3P

Issued: 10.11.1982

Stamp Day

Inside #3092: Stamp on Envelope

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Scott: #J140P, #J143P

Issued: 23.12.1982

Postage Due

Inside #J140, #J143: Pseudo Stamp

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Scott: #3150-1O

Issued: 24.10.1983

Stamp Day

Inside #3152: Pseudo Stamp

Inside #3152 (Label): Moldavia #1O (inscriptions omitted)

Scott: #3152P

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Scott: #3393-8P

Issued: 23.7.1986

Exploration of Tierra del Fuego

Inside #3393: Tierra del Fuego Local

Julius Popper (December 15, 1857 – June 5, 1893) was an engineer, adventurer and explorer of Romanian Jewish origin. He is responsible for the modern outline of the city of Havana, uba. As a "conquistador" of Tierra del Fuego in southern South America he was a controversial but influential figure. Popper was born in Bucharest, son of Professor Neftali Popper, a prosperous antique merchant. He studied in Paris before arriving to Argentina on 1885 hoping to find gold. In 7 Sep. 1886, together with eighteen people, he as captain, chief engineer, mineralogist, journalist and photographer, they started the "Popper Expedition" and found gold dust on the beach of El Páramo, a Patagonian peninsula. Expedition was rigorously and strictly enforced after military standards with heavily armed men with Popper in direct command of everything. He succeeded in unearthing great amounts of gold and his Compania de Lavaderos de Oro del Sud realized enormous capital gains at the Argentine stock exchange. In Patagonia, Popper gained dominance with a private army and he issued his own coins and stamps to symbolize his power. When the Argentine peso lost its value in the market crash of 1890, even there his gold coins were regarded as currency. Popper vigorously fought against his enemies; gold diggers and thieves were castigated after arbitrary law. However, the most controversial aspect of his life is his involvement in the genocide against the native communities in Tierra del Fuego. There is evidence Popper engaged into "hunting" Indians, an activity for which he cashed one pound for every Indian, man, woman or child, that he killed[. Photographs from the period show him and his men massacring onas with rifles and automatic weapons. Opposing Argentine Governors were eliminated by intrigues and through the media. Therefore, he was granted more and more land by the government. Popper even prepared an expedition to enforce the Argentine claim for parts of Antarctica. After his sudden death at the age of 35 his empire collapsed. Popper died in Buenos Aires, the cause of death remains unclear, but sources reveal being assassinated in his hotel room by a stranger. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_del_Fuego

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Scott: #3593P

Issued: 14.10.1989

French Revolution Bicentennial

Inside #3593: Pseudo Stamp

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Scott: #C284P

Issued: 17.11.1989

World Stamp Expo '89

Inside #C284: Stamp on Envelope, Pseudo Stamp

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Scott: #3601P

Issued: 2.5.1990

150th Anniversary, Penny Black

Inside #3601: G.B. #O1

The first ID was G.B. #1 but Lou wrote: There are V-R initials instead of crosses in the top corners of the artist representation of the "Penny Black" so the stamp is Gt. Britain #O1, the unissued Official stamp of 1840.

Inside #3601: Romania #1O

In the background the Alexandra Palace in London, the place where the exhibition was held.

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Scott: #3710O

Issued: 20.12.1991

Stamp Day

Inside #3710 (On Label): Romania #1O

http://www.artonstamps.org/Art-Gallery/Coach/coaches.htm

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Scott: #3743P

Issued: 24.4.1992

Grenada '92

Inside #3743: Spain #1P

Inside #3743: Romania #1O

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Scott: #3811P

Issued: 28.04.1993

Polska 93

Inside #3811: Pseudo Stamp in logo

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Scott: #3851P

Issued: 21.08.1993

Israel-Romania Stamp Exhibition "TELAFILA `93"

Inside #3851: Stamps on Envelope, Pseudo Stamp

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Scott: #4023O

Issued: 15.7.1995

Stamp Day

Inside #4023: Romanian Hotel Local – 1895O

http://www.artonstamps.org/Art-Gallery/Coach/coaches.htm

Komlóssy Zoltán wrote: Hohe Rinne's the case
The Scottish 4023 issue, published in 1995, depicts the 1st edition of the „Hohe Rinne”  stamp published in 1895. This stamp was not issued by any post office, but by the Transylvanian Carpathian Association (Siebenbürgischer Karpathenverein) (SKV), which has been authorized by the Hungarian Post to provide postal services to the nearest post office and return to its holiday resort guests. you can charge a fee for this service, or print a stamp to prove it  Transylvania belonged to Hungary at this time until the end of World War I, the postal service was carried out by Magyar Posta (Hungarian Post), therefore these stamps should be considered as Hungarian stamps. Transsylvania was attached to Romania after the 1st World War considerihg conclusion of peace. That’s why the stamp Hohe Rinne” nr.8th edition (issued 1923) and 9 th edition (issued 1924) are Romanian stamps, but previous ones are not. .((Dr Ettre, László: Az erdélyi magánhotelposták története (History of Transylvanian private hotel posts) …Budapest 1986))
Similarly, "Bistra" stamps should be considered Hungarian stamps until 1920. (Romania 2007, Scott 4975-6)
 

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Scott: #4114O

Issued: 15.7.1996

Stamp Day

Inside #4114: Pseudo Stamp

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Scott: #4202P

Issued: 12.05.1998

International Stamp Exhibition "ISREAL '98" - "ROMFILEX '96"

Romania #4081 Surcharged in red, Pseudo Stamp in logo

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Scott: #4229-30P

Issued: 17.9.1998

140th Anniversary of Romanian Stamps

Inside #4229: Romania #1O

Inside #4230: Romania #4O

Scott: #4231P

Inside #4231: Romania #2O

Inside #4231: Romania #3O

http://www.artonstamps.org/Art-Gallery/Coach/coaches.htm

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Mi #U2397-9O (Imprinted envelope)

Issued: 22.5.2000

Stamp Show 2000 Exhibition

Inside Mi #U2397: Romania-Moldavia #1O

Inside Mi #U2398 (in show logo): G. B. #1

Inside Mi #U2399: G. B. Rowland Hill essays, 1839

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Mi: #P1346-57O

(Romania issue codes #161-172)

Issued: 14.10.2000

Old Picture Postal Card Exhibition, "Remembrances of Bucharest"

Inside Mi #P1346: Romania #121O	Inside Mi #P1347: Romania #136P	Inside Mi #P1348: Romania #123P	Inside Mi #P1349: Romania #137P
Inside Mi #P1350: Romania # 127O	Inside Mi #P1351: Romania #225P	Inside Mi #P1352: Romania #207P	Inside Mi #P1353: Romania #220P
Inside Mi #P1354: Romania #208P	Inside Mi #P1355: Romania #210P	Inside Mi #P1356: Romania #275P	Inside Mi #P1357: Romania #275A??O

Romania Mi#P1346a-57aO

Lou wrote These are quite good looking and when offered back then(and now), only mint were available. According to the imprint on each card, there were 20,000 sets issued. Michel lists two different paper printings, as noted on sites, but only describes the variety as "glazed paper". The set I own I would describe as glossy card stock, so perhaps they are the variety. The scans attached have only the Romania issue codes (# in order of issue/year), but are in the same order as Michel lists.
 
Lou wrote added: Going to my printed databases (one is in chronological order for my collection, and the other is in alphabetical order for everyone else), I realized why I didn't have the Michel Ganszachen #s on my scans. They do not match the order of the numbering on the cards. This is abnormal for Michel, and I had expected them to correct this in a later volume, so in my databases, since there were twelve card #s and twelve Michel #s, I rearranged the Michel #s so that both were in numerical order. For my scan library I left the scans with the issue #s I had before I had any Michel #s. That was over twenty years ago, and I haven't seen a later catalog since. I did find that the Michel catalog I had borrowed from the APS Library was incomplete for Romania, as imprinted cards and envelopes I actually had in hand were not listed, so I continued to use the issue #s for them and on later issues for my databases and scan library. With that catalog, I had also discovered that Michel had decided to change the Type codings they had used in previous catalogs, so many entries in my databases/scans had to be redone, and others could/would change later.
Also, it appears that Michel #s are rarely used by dealers on their internet offers; the catalogs for Europe (not counting the specialized Germany) have grown from the original two volumes to a number of various regionals, which are extremely expensive, too dear for a limited selling area. For all these reasons, I had soured on using Michel numbering for stationery.
For other country's postal stationery where catalog listings did not exist, I have used the numberings on them for a reference in lieu of nothing else, and will do so also for Romania. 

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #4485O

Issued: 9.10.2001

Dialogue among Civilizations

Inside #4485: Pseudo Stamp on Envelope

Thanks to Lloyd Gilbert

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Scott: #4522P

Issued: 10.6.2002

50^th Anniversary, International Dealers Association

Inside #4522a: Moldavia #4O

Inside #4522a: Moldavia #1O

Inside #4522a: Moldavia #2O

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Scott: #???? EnvelopesO

Issued: 15.6.2002

50^th Anniversary, International Dealers Association

Inside #????: Moldavia #1O (Modified)

Inside #????: Moldavia #10O

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Scott: #4534O

Issued: 9.8.2002

Postal services

Inside #4534: Stamps in album

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Scott: #????O

Issued: 00.00.2002

Imprinted Postal Card – Romanian Postal History

Inside #????: Moldavia #1O

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Scott: #????O

Issued: 00.00.2002

Imprinted Postal Card – EFIRO 2003 Exhibition

Inside #????: Romania #???

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Scott: #???O

(Thanks to Komlóssy Zoltán for the scan)

Issued: 00.10.2002

Imprinted Card – HUNFILA 2002 Exhibition

Inside #???: Moldavia #1O

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Scott: #???O

Issued: 00.00.2003

Imprinted Card – Classic Cover

Inside #???: Moldavia #1O

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Scott: #???O

Issued: 00.00.2003

Imprinted Envelope, 140^th Anniversary, Stamp Unified Princ

Inside #???: Wallachia #1

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Scott: #???O

Issued: 00.00.2003

Imprinted Envelope, Baricada Phil Club Exhibition

Inside #???: Moldavia #1O

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Scott: #???O

Issued: 00.00.2003

Imprinted Card, Various Philatelic subjects

Inside #???: Moldavia #1O

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Scott: #????, #???? (Imprinted Cards)

(Thanks to Lou for the scans)

Issued: 00.03.2003

Centenary issue of 1903

Inside #????: Romania #167O proof, unvalued

Inside #????: Romania #160O proof, unvalued

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Scott: #B462O

Issued: 25.3.2004

90^th Anniversary, Foundation of the Romanian Olympic Committee M/S

Inside #B462: Greece #125O

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Scott: #4633O

Issued: 24.4.2004

51st Gen. Assembly Int’l Council for Game & Wildlife Conservation

Inside #4633 (In margin): Romania-Moldavia #1O

Thanks to Lloyd Gilbert

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Scott: #B464P

Issued: 15.7.2004

Efiro 2004 / Stamp Day

Scott: #B463P

Inside #B463: Romania-Moldavia #1O

"Stamps are miniature documents of human history. They mirror the past, show the present and presage the future. In short, postage stamps creations portray a vivid picture of the world, the people and their multifarious endeavors."
"THE NATIONAL PHILATELIC MUSEUM" was created with the purpose of becoming a center of learning and activity that enables those of all ages, united by the same hobby, philately. 
For over a century, General Direction of Post and Telegraph had multiple attempts to create such a museum, but just in the interbelic period postal museum was created in one of the room of Postal Palace (now, Museum of National History of Romania). The existence of this museum was a brief livelihood. The 2004 year is the year of reborn of this institution, who will, insistence, goodwill and the effort of those close to philately and post, managed to transpose in real imagine.
The National Philatelic Museum is a cultural institution with a mission to promote knowledge and understanding of the world, through the study of stamps, letters, and other means of people´s communication through the mail. The Museum is hosted by the building of the National Museum of Romanian History.
A permanent concern of this institution is the acquisition of different philatelic items for the completion and enrichment of the collection. The National Philatelic Museum proposes a visit of numerous philatelic pearls, including some unique in the world. Here are expose the stencil who gave birth of the famous Aurach’s Head or the essays and stamp probe who gave the colour and interest of any collections. The Museum invites to a visit in the postal stamp and postal history.
Romfilatelia S.A. marks this event by releasing a postage stamp who represents the building where is the Museum. The postal card which reproduces the imagine, is part of Mr. Leonard Pascanu’s collections.

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Scott: #4660O, #4661P, #4662P, #4663P, #4664O, #4665O

Issued: 10.9.2004

UPU Congresses in Philately

Inside #4660: Romania #4619bO Previous UPU Congress Issues (2004)

Inside #4661: Switzerland #589P

Inside #4662: Korea #1794P

Inside #4663: China (PRC) #2868P (China)

Inside #4664: US #2434cO

Inside #4665: Brazil #1629P

General Postal Union was founded in 1874, by the Berne Treaty, under the attention of Heinrich von Stephen, a high ranking official in the postal administration of Northern Germany Confederation. The act of birth of the Union was signed by the representatives of 22 countries, and Romania was one of them, on October 9th,1874, which became the World Day of the Postal Administration.
From the Romanian side, the foundation signature belongs to the General Director of Posts and Telegraph, George Lahovari. The Bern Treaty allowded the harmonization of separate postal services networks from a wider territory.
In 1878, the General Postal Union changed its name into the Universal Postal Union and in 1948 became a specialized agency of UNO.
With 190 member countries and being in continuos expansion, the Universal Postal Union is the main forum of cooperation between national postal administrations.
The mission of UPU is to find the proper means for developing the quality and the accessibility of the postal services, in order to facilitate communication between people all overthe world.
The Universal Postal Union Congress is the supreme authority of the UPU and joins together representatives of all member countries. It takes place once every five years and, in 2004, the honour to host the 23rd Universal Postal Congress goes to Romania. Romania is the first EastEuropean country to host this major event.
To mark the special involvement of UPU in the proper development of the postal activities, Romfilatelia, the specialized company in issuing and trading philatelic items in Romania, releases one issue entitled "UPU Congresses in philately". Each of the six postage stamps reproduces issue in the "stamp of stamp" system, one of the stamps released by the Postal Administrations that hosted this impressive event, in previous years.

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Scott: #???? (Imprinted envelope)

Issued: 16.9.2004

National Maximafilately Exhibition

Inside #????: Romania #B435O

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Scott: #???? (Imprinted envelope)

Issued: 27.9.2004

International Participation EFIRO 2004

Inside #????: Romania #130O

Inside #???? (In margin): Romania #117, #119, #121, #123, #???, #127-9

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Scott: #???? (Imprinted envelope)

Issued: 29.9.2004

75^th Anniversary, Meter Postage

Inside #????: Romania meter imprint, 1929

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Scott: #4757P

Issued: 30.09.2005

Natl. Philatelic Museum, 1st Anniversary

Inside #4757: Romania-Moldavia #1O

On the occasion of the celebration of 1 year since the foundation of the National Philatelic Museum, Romfilatelia is releasing the philatelic issue called the National Philatelic Museum – 1 year since the foundation. 
The national Philatelic Museum, inaugurated on October 1st 2004, on the occasion of the 23rd Congress of the Universal Postal Union, in the presence of 40 ministers, representatives of the Postal Administrations from the entire world, is hosted within the National Museum of History of Romania.  Built in a neoclassical style, by the plans of the architect Al. Savulescu, the museum building has hosted the Central Post of the Bucharest city until 1970. 
In 1981, the General Department of Posts and Telegraph has founded the first version of the postal museum.  Extensive measures have been taken for the foundation of a Postal Museum, so that at the beginning of the XX century, the postal museum has been introduced to the public for the first time, within the General Exhibition from 1906. The famous architect Grigore Cerchez, Postmaster General, has built an old postal inn where postal history items have been exhibited, together with numerous stamps belonging to the general Department of Posts and Telegraph.  However, the museum did not last for long.
The year 2004 represents the rebirth of the institution, which is currently hosting within its three halls with a surface of more than 600 sqm a part of the Romanian Post treasury.  In the "Cezar Librecht” hall (the first postmaster general from Moldavia and Muntenia) one may admire various postal items used throughout time:  a desk from a post office, letter boxes, boxes for the transport of valuable items, stamps, bugles, postal bags, coachmen uniforms.  In the "Dimitrie C. Butculescu" hall (the founding president of the Romanian Philatelic Society) one may observe a rich and comprehensive bibliography of the Romania philatelic history.  The exhibits also include numerous diplomas and medals obtained in time by the Romanian Post.  In the "George Lahovary" hall (the Romanian representative to the birth of the General Postal Union in 1874, which in 1878 turned into the Universal Postal Union), there is a part of the treasury adding up to 11 million stamps, some of which are unique pieces throughout the world.  The most rare are the famous "Bull's Head" issued in Moldavia in 1858, a symbol of the independence of the Romanian Princedom before the Turkish Empire.  Actually, the "Bull's Head" was the first Romanian postage stamp occurring in the South-East of Europe, before Greece (1861), Turkey (1863), Serbia (1866and Bulgaria (1879). Another valuable exhibit introduced as sheets is the issue "Carol I with whiskers" or "with beard" from 1866-1872. The original steel moulds with which the first issue of the "Bull's Head" had been printed are also displayed here, together with stamp patterns starting ever since 1872. 
The National Philatelic Museum, perceived as a cultural institution of the Romanian Post, has the mission to promote the knowledge and the understanding of the world by studying stamps, letters or any other means of communication by post.  
The pattern of the stamp presenting the theme of the event, made by the famous painter and illustrator Devis Grebu, is originally associating the bull's head (a reproduction of the first Romanian stamps) to the texts symbolizing the celebration of the first year of existence of the National Philatelic Museum. 
With a face value of 40 bani, the stamp is introduced to the collectors a postage stamp sheets and also as an interesting variant of tęte-bęche.

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Scott: #4762a-bO

Thanks to Lloyd Gilbert for scan

Issued: 4.11.2005

160^th Birth Anniversary, D. Butculescu

Inside #4762a: Romania-Moldavia #1O

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Scott: #4820-23P

Issued: 8.5.2006

140 Years since the foundation of the Romanian Royal Dynasty &

125 Years since the Proclamation of the Romanian Kingdom

Inside #4820: Romania #29O Charles I (issued in 1866)

Inside #4821: Romania #248P Ferdinand I (issued in 1920)

Inside #4822: Romania #376P Charles II (issued in 1930)

Inside #4823: Romania #513P Michael I (issued in 1940)

Scott: #4823aP

Scott: #4824P

Inside #4824: Romania #180O 40 years of the reign of Charles I (issued in 1906)

Romfilatelia, the company specialized in issuing and trading Romanian postage stamps, is now releasing under the title of HISTORICAL EVENTS, a philatelic issue dedicated to the anniversary of 140 years since the Foundation of the Romanian Royal Dynasty and of 125 years since the Proclamation of the Romanian Kingdom.
On the 5th of January 1859, in Iaºi, Moldavians elected Alexandru Ioan Cuza as ruler, and on the 24th of January, the Elective Assembly of Walachia  granted him the same title in this principality. In 1862, on the very same 24th of January, the name of the country becomes Romania, with its capital city in Bucharest. During the following years, Cuza starts a reforming program that will lead to the modernization of the country, but will also create the dissatisfaction of the leading political group. In February 1866, Cuza is forced to abdicate, therefore the idea of bringing a foreign prince to rule the country is adopted again. 
The Lordly Lieutenancy created after dismissing Cuza, published "a proclamation to the people", in April 1866, recommending the election, through a plebiscite, of prince Charles of Hohenzollern - Sigmaringen, as the ruler of Romania, under the name of Charles I (1839-1914). 
According to the result of the plebiscite, widely favorable to prince Charles, he becomes, on the 10th of May 1866, the Prince of the Romanian United Princedoms. After only one month, more precisely on the 30th of June 1866, Charles I promulgated the Constitution which, under its 1st article  sanctifies the name of the country as follows: "Prince of the Romanians by the grace of God and through our national will; hail to you all, present and future!... The Romanian United Princedoms are now a single, undivided State, called Romania." In 1869 he married Elisabeth of Wied, also known by her literary pseudonym Carmen Sylva. 
Ever since his coming, Charles I militated for the achievement of the national desideratum: to gain the independence and sovereignty of Romania. The Russian-Turkish war that began in the spring of year 1877, as well as Russia´s request that the Romanian armies join the Russian ones, gave the occasion to the Parliament of the country to proclaim, on the 9th of May 1877, the independence of the Romanian State. 
Romania´s affirmation as an independent European country imposed the change of its status of Princedom. 
In this context, in 1881, on the 26th of March, Charles I received the title of King and Romania becomes Kingdom. After proclaiming the Kingdom, Charles I appointed Ferdinand, the second son of his elder brother, as the heir of the throne. Thus assuring the continuity of the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen Dynasty, whose name is transformed, starting with King Ferdinand I, into "Casa de Romania". After Ferdinand I (the Unifyer), the throne was inherited by his son, King Charles II and his nephew, son of Charles II, King Michael I of Romania.
During the 48 years of the reign of Charles I, Romania crossed a period of outstanding development in the economic, social and cultural fields, witnessing at the same time a consolidation of the democratic institutions of the State.
The issue, composed of four postage stamps (also prepared as a philatelic block with the Peleº Castle on the background) and a perforated miniature sheet, reunites, in a unitary graphics, representative images of postage stamps belonging to the first series issued with the effigy of each of the four kings: Charles I (1866), Ferdinand I (1920), Charles II (1930), Michael I (1940).
The postage stamp of the miniature sheet reproduces one of the ten postage stamps of the jubilee series "40 years of reign of Charles I" (1906) that reunites the effigies of Charles I as ruler and king.

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Scott: #4871-4P

Issued: 30.7.2006

World Philatelic Exhibition EFIRO 2008

Inside #4871: Romania #1O

Inside #4872: Romania #2O

Inside #4873: Romania #4O

Inside #4874: Romania #3O

Scott: #4875P

In 2008, 150 years shall have passed since the issue of the first Romanian postage stamp, the famous “Bull Head”. On this occasion, Romania shall organize the first World Philatelic Exhibition, called EFIRO 2008.
To promote this major philatelic event among the population, Romfilatelia, the specialized company in issuing and trading Romanian postage stamps, introduces into the circulation the philatelic issue World Philatelic Exhibition EFIRO 2008.
The first EFIRO exhibition (E-exhibition FI-philatelic RO-Romanian) with international participation took place in 1932, under the high patronage of King Charles II. The following two exhibitions took place at the Parliament Palace in 1998 and 2004.
In 2008, at the Romexpo complex, where the World Philatelic Exhibition EFIRO 2008 shall take place, postage stamps from the collections of Queen Elisabeth of Great Britain and of Prince Albert de Monaco shall be exhibited. Besides these, “Penny Black”, the first postage stamp in the world (1840) shall be present, as well as several copies of the first Romanian postage stamp – “Bull Head”. At the same time, another philatelic rarity shall be exhibited, i.e. a letter dating back from the World War II, which still carries the traces of the radiations of the Hiroshima bomb.
More than 1000 collectors coming from more than 70 countries of the world are expected to participate in this World Philatelic Exhibition.
The philatelic issue presents in the “stamp on stamp” style the postage stamps of the first issue “Bull Head” (15th of July 1858).
The postage stamps of the issue having the face value of RON 0.30, 0.50, 1.20 and 1.60 carry the image of the four postage stamps issued in 1858, i.e. of the face values of 27, 54, 81 and 108 Parale. The images of the postage stamps are associated to labels whose leitmotif is the Moldavian Blazon, carved in stone, in four different hypostases.
The postage stamp of the perforated souvenir sheet, having the face value of RON 2.20, reunites in a unitary graphic representation the drawing of the postage stamp “Bull Head” and the image of the Moldavian bull in his natural habitat.
All the components of the issue carry the logo of EFIRO 2008.

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Scott: #4975-6P

Issued: 18.7.2007

100th Anniversary, Bistra Stamps

Inside #4975-6: Bistra Local Post StampsO

149 years ago, on July 15th 1858, was issued the first Romanian postage stamp, the famous „Bull head”.
The Universal Postal Union’s Congress, which took place in Paris in 1937, decided that each member country should celebrate the own postage stamp. Thus, the date of 15 July represents Romanian Postage Stamp Day. This year, in the context of annual theme ROMANIAN POSTAGE STAMP DAY, Romfilatelia introduces into circulation the postage stamps issue Centenary of the Bistra Local Postage Stamps. 
Bistra was, at the beginning of the 20th century, a small resort opened for the tourists exclusively for the summer period, located at 50 km South of the city Sebes-Alba, in the Western side of the Cindrel Mountains.
During the summer seasons of 1905 – 1906, the Sebes Section of the Carpathian Association of Tourists from Ardeal (Siebenbürgischer Karpathen Verein – S.K.V.) intitiated a regular post and tourist transport which connected Sebes and Bistra during the months of July and August. For the certification on the correspondences of the local transport fee collected by the Bistra Post Office, S.K.V. started in 1907 using own local postage stamps. Two local Bistra postage stamps were printed, with the face value of 2 and respectively 6 Heller.
The Bistra stamps of 2 Heller remained non-issued due to the increase of the local postage fee from 2 Heller to 6 Heller, at the beginning of the summer of 1907, after their printing. 
The objects of correspondence stamped with these ones, in the summers between 1907 and 1913, are today first degree philatelic rarities.
On the stamp with the face value of RON 0.50, we encounter the Bistra local postage stamp of 6 Heller and an image from the Lower Colony, with a period piece carriage.
The stamp with the face value of RON 2.10, presents the Bistra local postage stamp of 2 Heller and an image from the Upper Colony, including the resort postman.

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Inside #????: Tierra del Fuego Local

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Scott: #4986-8P

Issued: 17.8.2007

World Philatelic Exhibition EFIRO 2008

Inside #4986: Romania #8O

Inside #4987: Romania #9O

Inside #4988: Romania #10O

Scott: #4989P

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Scott: #5003-4P

Issued: 14.11.2007

Danubian Harbours and Ships

Inside #4485: Pseudo Stamp on Tab

Romania – Serbia Twin issue - Two stamps for each country. Harbours of Orsova (Romania) and Novi Sad (Serbia): passenger ships Orsova and Sirona.

Labels are attached to the right side of the Romanian miniature sheets (5 labels for 10 stamps).

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Scott: #5041-2P

Issued: 08.05.2008

Europa 2008 – Letters

Inside #5042: Switzerland #1146P

Scott: #5042aP

Scott: #5042bO

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #???? (Imprinted envelope)

Issued: 20.6.2008

World Philatelic Exhibition, Bucharest - EFIRO 2008

Inside #????: Romania #1-4O

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #5046-51P

Issued: 20.6.2008

World Philatelic Exhibition, Bucharest - EFIRO 2008

Inside #5046: Romania #5O

Inside #5047: Romania #12O

Inside #5048: Romania #22O

Inside #5049: Romania #108O

Inside #5050: Romania #158O

Inside #5051: Romania #415O

Scott: #5052P

Inside #5052: Romania #B40O (Thanks to Lou)

Scott: #5046a-5051aP

The 6 Efiro 2008 stamps were issued in se tenant/tete beche sheetlets of 8 with #s 1-4 in the margins (Thanks to Lou)

Scott: #5051bP

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Scott: #5390-1P

Issued: 24.09.2012

150th Anniversary of the Romanian Post

Inside #5390: Romania (Moldavia-Walachia) #11O

Inside #5390: Romania (Moldavia-Walachia) #12O

Inside #5390: Romania (Moldavia-Walachia) #14O

Scott: #5390aO, #5391aO

Scott: #5391bP

Inside #5391b (In margin): Romania #158O (changed color)

Thanks to Lou Guadagno for the IDs and scans

Thanks to Prof. Plinio Richelmi

Following the natural course of historical events after the Union of the Romanian Principalities in 1859, the administrative and political institutions of the two Romanian states had to be unified.

This would happen after three years on 24 January 1862, when the two Assemblies of Moldavia and Wallachia started operating as a unique legislative body.

In March 1862, it was enacted the unification of postal administrations of the two Principalities and the new entity started operating effectively in August of the same year, in Bucharest under the name of “Unified General Direction of Post”.

The postal tariff mainly aimed at reducing the postal fees following the increase of mail traffic and the introduction of unique fees for the entire country, regardless of distance.

Knowing that Moldavia already had a more efficient postal service than Wallachia since there, the use of the postage stamps had already been introduced, special measures had to be taken to improve the whole postal activity in Wallachia as well.

In May 1862, once with the coming into effect of the new tariffs, the postage stamps issue “Moldova II” was withdrawn from circulation, and in June and July, the postage stamps issue “United Principalities”, a hand printed one, was released in Wallachia (June 28) and Moldavia (July 15).

The postage stamps having the face values of 3, 6 and 30 parale were reproduced in the three colours of the national flag. The 3 parale postage stamp was yellow, the 6 parale red and the 30 parale blue. The printing of stamps was executed in “tête-bêche” position, on a rudimentary press brought from Iasi.

The images reproduced on the postage stamps were the heraldic signs of the two Principalities: the Wallachian eagle and the Moldavian bull.

In 1864, the second issue “United Principalities”, a machine printed postage stamps issue, was launched as were brought new equipments.

After ten years, in 1874, at Bern, by George Lahovary’s signature, Romania became one of the founding members of the General Postal Union (since 1878 – Universal Postal Union).

In 1948, the Universal Postal Union became a specialized institution of the United Nations Organization being the main forum for cooperation between the postal services and the accurate assurance of a universal network of services and products of the current post office.

In 2004, the 23rd UPU Congress took place in Bucharest, being the first Congress organized in an East European country.

The 24th UPU Congress was hosted by Geneva in 2008, a year when Romania organized the World Philatelic Exhibition EFIRO to mark the 150th anniversary since the issuing of the famous stamps “Bull’s Head -1858” by the postal services of Moldavia, only 18 years later since the putting into circulation of the first postage stamps in the world in Great Britain.

Between 24 September and 15 October 2012, the 25th Congress of the Universal Postal Union will take place in Doha, Qatar, a congress where the representatives of the 192 UPU member states will participate.

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary since the setting up of the Unified General Direction of Post from Romania, Romfilatelia introduces into circulation a postage stamps issue dedicated to this event which will be presented to the Congress in Doha, in the context of Romania’s participation to this assembly.

The stamp with the face value of lei 1.00 reproduces the images of the three stamps belonging to postage stamps issue "United Principalities”, released in 1862.

The stamp with the face value of lei 8.10 reproduces the image of the building of the Post Palace in Bucharest, built between 1894-1900 using the blueprints of the architect Alexandru Savulescu.

http://www.romfilatelia.ro/marci/colectia.php?ContentID=654

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Scott: #5471-4O

Issued: 26.07.2013

Numismatic Collection of the National Bank of Romania

Inside #5741 (On Label): Romania #45O

Inside #5742 (On Label): Romania #188O

Inside #5743 (On Label): Romania #250O

Inside #5744 (On Label): Romania #376P

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #5618O

Issued: 25.10.2014

Witnessing History:  King Michael I

Inside #5618 (In margin): Romania #326P

Inside #5618 (In margin): Romania #506P

Inside #5618 (In margin): Romania #647P

Thanks to Lou Guadagno and Prof. Plinio Richelmi

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Scott: #5681O

Issued: 13.05.2015

Europhilex - London 2015

Overprint, revalue on #3601a

Inside #5681 (in overprint): Moldavia #1O

Scott: #5681O

Imprinted envelope

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #5713aO

Issued: 08.09.2015

Discover Moldavia

Inside #5713a (In label and margin): Moldavia #1O

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #5742O

Issued: 15.12.2015

70th Anniversary of the UN, 60th Anniversary since Romania joined the UN

Inside #5742 (In margin): Romania #1717P

Inside #5742 (In margin): Romania #2205O

Inside #5742 (In margin): Romania #3323O

Inside #5742 (In margin): Romania #3988O

Inside #5742 (In margin): Romania #4761O

In 2015, the United Nations celebrates 70 years since its foundation, through the coming into force of the UN Charter, on October 24th, 1945, and 60 years since Romania joined the organization. On this occasion, Romfilatelia introduces into circulation the postage stamp issue celebrating these two events. 

The UN was created as a project for maintaining peace and preventing new global conflicts, reflecting the vision of the victorious allies of the Second World War. Romania was admitted to the organization under a resolution of the UN General Assembly on December 14th, 1955. 

Romania’s accession was significant in itself as a means of affirmation on the international scene given that until then Romania had been in the shadows of the Iron Curtain. 

After its accession to the UN, the first step for Romania was to explore the political context and the existing possibilities for promoting national interests. 

Romania’s proactive attitude and openness towards relations with Western countries had positive results, such as obtaining the Chairmanship of the General Assembly for the 1967/68 session. It was for the first time when a representative of the socialist group attainted this position, even ahead of some founding members. In addition, Romania was well represented within the secretariats of UN institutions. 

In 1974, Romania hosted the World Population Conference, a prestigious predecessor of high-level Conferences from the 1990s. Bucharest also hosted the most prestigious UNESCO institution outside France, the European Centre for Higher Education. 

After 1989 Romania’s profile and actions at the UN radically changed. 

During the 1990s the UN became a key provider of technical assistance for Romania, focusing on priority areas transformation such as economy, underprivileged children, environment protection, supporting democratic institutions, education and so on. 

The most significant UN funds and programmes opened offices and started implementing programmes for Romania: the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Fund for Children, the United Nations Population Fund, the World Labour Organization, the World Health Organization, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. 

The nature of Romania’s contribution to UN activities also changed. In 1991, for the first time in its history, Romania contributed with troops to UN peacekeeping operations. The involvement peak was reached in 1996, when Romania was ranked the 10th most important UN contributor. This was an important argument backing Romania’s application to join NATO. 

In 2000, for the first time in its history at the UN, Romania was able to pass an important initiative, not only for the consolidation of its new profile at a multilateral level, but also for the UN agenda as such, by means of the Resolution Promoting and Consolidating Democracy (2000), adopted successively by the Human Rights Committee and the General Assembly. 

The decision of the International Court of Justice in the case regarding the maritime delimitation in the Black Sea (2009) is the most important event in the history of relations between Romania and the UN system. 

This decision is not only the most direct and explicit use of the UN system to serve Romania’s national interest, but it also reveals many of the topics promoted by Romanian diplomats at the UN: regional cooperation, observing international law, peaceful resolution of disputes, as well as the role the UN plays for small and medium-sized states. 

Romfilatelia thanks the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the support granted in the creation of this postage stamp issue. 

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #????O

Issued: 28.05.2016

NY 2016 Stamp Show

Inside #????: Moldavia #1O

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #????-?O

Issued: 27.04.2018

 85th Anniversary of the Pinacotheque Municipality

Inside #????: Pseudo Stamp

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Scott: #????-?O

Issued: 16.07.2018

Philatelic Premieres

Inside #????: Moldavia #1O

Inside #????: Romania #5O

Inside #????: Moldavia #10O

Inside #????: Romania #34O

Inside #????: Romania #45O

About Philatelic Premieres

In the Centenary year of the 1918 Great Union, in the context of the 160thanniversary since the first issue of Romanian postage stamps, known in the list of topics under the title Bull Head (Cap de bour), plus other premieres related to the manner of achieving the production and presentation of the stamps, Romfilatelia introduces into circulation the postage stamps issue Romanian Postage Stamp Day– Philatelic Premieres.

The five face values of this issue are defined as follows:

On the stamp with the face value of lei 1.50 is illustratedthe postage stamp of the first issue from 1858, Bull Head (Cap de bour)(with the face value of 27 parale).

The second stamp, with the face value of lei 2, represents the first stamp with the Latin graphy PORTO GAZETEI, and on the third stamp of the issue, with the face value of lei 3, is represented the first stamp with the Latin graphy PORTO SCRISOREI.

Carol bewhiskered (Carol cu favoriti), the first stamp with the face value expressed in BANI, is illustrated on the stamp with the face value of lei 5, and the first perforated Romanian stamp Carol with beard (Carol cu barba) is represented on the stamp with the face value of lei 19.

A brief presentation of the aforesaid postage stamps begins naturally with the Bull Head (Cap de bour)issue, printed on July 15th, 1858 and put into circulation on July 22nd, 1858 (it was withdrawn in October 1858). At the release date of the issue, the exchange rate was 108 parale (the para/paralewas a former small currency of the Ottoman Empire made from silver that circulated also in the Romanian countries in the 19th-20thcentury) for a French franc. Postage tariffs taken over from the France model - 25 centimes, 50 centimes, 75 centimes and a franc - had the correspondent face values of stamps, namely 27, 54, 81 and 108 parale. The drawing of the stamps, printed for each face value with an individual metallic cliché, reproduces the bull head, element of Moldavia’s coat of arms, along with the post horn, a five-pointed star, the PORTO SCRISOREI legend written in Cyrillic letters and the face value expressed in parale. All elements are entered in a circle of 19.5 mm in diameter for the face values of 27 and 54 parale, 19.75 mm for 81 parale and 20.25 mm for 108 parale.

The postage stamps of the Bull Head (Cap de bour) first issue (July 1858) were printed in sheets of 32 stamps, four rows of eight stamps arranged in such a way that eight pairs of “tęte-bęche” were formed in the middle of the sheet. The special paper, of foreign origin and different thickness, structure and colors, was then manually covered with acacia, yellow-brown gum on the gluing face.

The stamps printing took place at the printing house in Iasi, known as Atelia Timbrului, founded in January 1856 by the Ruler Grigore Alexandru Ghica for the printing of the “Ruler’s stamp”(„Timbrului domnesc”). The press used for the carrying out of the Bull Head (Cap de bour)postage stamps was purchased from Vienna in 1857.

The second Bull Head (Cap de bour) issue was put into circulation simultaneously with the introduction of the single postal tariff on November 1st, 1858 and was withdrawn on May 1st, 1862. Consisting of three postage stamps with face values of 5, 40 and 80 parale, the issue displays changes by comparison with the drawing of the first issue: the bull’s head and the postal horn have different design, the star has six corners instead of five, the legend PORTO SCRISOREIor PORTO GAZETEI is written in Latin, the Cyrillic alphabet remaining for the abbreviated writing PAR (parale). The entire graphic assembly is not engraved in a circle, but in a slightly rectangular-at-the-corners rectangle. The printed stamps also featured 32 postage stamps with eight pairs of “tęte-bęche” at their center. The paper, of English origin, was thin, almost transparent, azure or yellowish.

The postage stamp with the legend PORTO SCRISOREIwas intended for franking postal mail and parcels, and the PORTO GAZETEIlegend was used to the postage franking of newspapers and prints.

The postage stamps of both issues were imperforated and entered the list of large international quotations. It is worth mentioning that, following the appearance of Moldavian postage stamps in 1858, other countries followed the example: Greece (1861), Turkey (1863), Serbia (1866), Hungary (1871), Montenegro (1874), Bulgaria (1879), Albania (1913).

The first issue of Romanian postage stamps known as Carol bewhiskered (Carol cu favoriti), with face value expressed in bani(the smallest divisionary currency of lei used as exchange instrument and means of payment), was put into circulation 150 years ago, in 1868.

The postage stamps of this issue are part of the “lithographed” category and were printed in Bucharest starting with 1864 until 1872. The typographic method used (the print mould was a special limestone stone with perfect flatness) had some inconveniences by comparison with the print executed with metallic cliché or engraved clichés: less bright colors, fine details reproduced with difficulty. This issue marks the moment of introducing the Romanian monetary system with the LEU unit and the BAN division.

It should be noted that the Carol bewhiskered (Carol cu favoriti)postage stamps, with value in PARALE or BANI, were imperforated.

The postage stamp issue Carol with beard (Carol cu barba)belongs to the “lithographed” category and was carried out in two stages: in the years 1871-1872, five postage stamps are issued imperforated and between February and October 1872 a issue of three values, made for the first time as perforated postage stampswas put into circulation.

Thanks to Martin Hirschbühl

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Scott: #????-?O

Issued: 03.08.2018

Museum of Romanian Records

Inside #????: Romania #4O

Scott: #????O

Scott: #????O

Romania #1-4O

Lou wrote: This one from Romania, issued in 2018, I like because it brought to mind many long-ago hours spent with my children and then, grand-son searching "Where's Waldo" books for that elusive striped shirt character. This approximately 6 x 6" souvenir sheet shows a myriad of mostly antique objects in the Museum of Romanian Records. There is no proverbial kitchen sink, but hidden among them are tiny Moldavia 1-2-3-4, the rare first stamps of Romania.  Locating them will take some searching, but should also be a fun experience.

For those of you who were unsuccessful or not inclined for children's games, I am adding a cut out of the sheet showing where's Molda(via).

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #????-?O

Issued: 16.01.2019

Romania, a European Treasure

Inside #????: Romania Stamps TBI

Scott: #????O

Scott: #????O

Inside #???? (and in margin): Romania #1913-20P

Inside #???? (In margin): Romania #2611-2P

Inside #???? (In margin): Romania TBI

Scott: #????O

Inside #???? (In margin): Romania Stamps TBI

Scott: #????O

Inside #???? (In margin): Romania Stamps TBI

Inside #???? (In margin): Romania #????O (2016)

Inside #???? (In margin): Romania #3413O

Scott: #????O

Inside #???? (In margin): Romania Stamps TBI

Scott: #????O

Inside #???? (In margin): Romania Stamps TBI

Scott: #????O

Inside #???? (In margin): Romania Stamps TBI

Thanks to Attilio Papio and Komlóssy Zoltán

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Scott: #????-?O

Issued: 19.09.2019

EFIRO 2019

Inside #????: Romania #C71O

Inside #????: Romania #1O

Inside #????: Romania TBI

Scott: #????O

Inside #????: Romania #B40O

Inside #???? (In margin): Romania #421-7P

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #????-?O

Issued: 21.01.2021

The Passions of the Kings of Romania

Inside #????-?: Romania #377P

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Scott: #????-?O

Issued: 05.01.2022

Personalities 

Inside #???? (On tab): Romania #2611-2P

Inside #???? (On tab): Romania #????O (2016)

Inside #???? (On tab): Romania #3413O

Inside #???? (On tab): Romania #1673P

Inside #???? (On tab): Romania #4726O

Inside #???? (On tab): Romania #1133O

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Scott: #????-?O

Issued: 08.04.2022

EUROPA Stamps - Stories and Myths

Inside #????: Romania #1O

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Scott: #????-?O

Issued: 15.07.2022

Stamp day

Inside #????: Romania #54O

Scott: #????O

Inside #???? (In margin): Romania #22O

Inside #???? (In margin): Romania #23O

Inside #???? (In margin): Romania #24O

Scott: #????O

Inside #???? (In margin): Romania #58O

Inside #???? (In margin): Romania #56O

Inside #???? (In margin): Romania #59O

Inside #???? (In margin): Romania TBI

Inside #???? (In margin): Romania TBI

Inside #???? (In margin): Romania #2347P

Scott: #????O

Inside #????: Romania #23O

Inside #???? (In margin): Romania #12O

Romanian Post, 160 Years

Among the activities with social impact carried out on the territory of the United Principalities, Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza also included as a priority objective the one related to the presence of postal services.

The phased introduction of the state monopoly on the postal activity was started in 1857, in Moldavia, when a first measure was taken by introducing postage stamps on its territory (the “Bull’s Head” issue – 1858). After the establishment of the Romanian capital in Bucharest, on July 23rd, 1862, the Decree no. 527 was issued on the unification of the postal administrations of Moldavia and Wallachia. The period of modern post began with the year 1864 when the telegraphic and later the telephone service was added to the postal service, giving birth to an institutional structure bearing the PTT symbol.

On May 1st, 1865, the postal subscription service was introduced, after which the rural postal service was established.

Between September 15th and October 9th, 1874, in Bern, the first Postal Congress took place, during which it was decided to create the Universal Postal Union, Romania being one of the 22 founding members of the organization. At this Congress, Romania was represented by George Lahovari.

The Romanian Post thus entered the world circuit of postal activities.

In 1894, taking as model similar buildings in the West, construction began on the Post Office Palace, which was to be inaugurated in 1900, and in 1903 the official postage stamps issue, Căişorii (Little Horses), was to be launched in an official setting, with eight face values.

In 1925, PTT also took over in its administration the operation of a new branch of telecommunications, radiotelegraphy, the new symbol of the institution becoming PTTR. After the Second World War, by the Decree no. 197 of 1955, the absolute monopoly of the state over the field of post and telecommunications has been again enshrined.

After 1989, the Rom-Post-Telecom Government Business Enterprise is separated into four government business enterprises: “R.A. Poșta Română, R.A. Rom Telecom, R.A. Radiocomunicații” and the General Inspectorate of Radiocommunications. As of July 1998, “R.A. Poşta Română” was transformed into the National Company Romanian Post (NCRP), that became the national operator in the field of postal services, a unique provider of universal services at any point in Romania, at rates accessible to all users and at high quality standards.

Through its subsidiary, Romfilatelia, established by the GD no. 42/2004, was designated by the Romanian Government as the only institution authorized to issue the Romanian postage stamp, a true symbol of country and promoter of national values, universal messenger of the Romanian culture and history.

160 years after the establishment of the postal institution, the National Company Romanian Post catches in its charter of representation as fundamental values: trust, tradition, safety and performance, along with the achievement of other goals such as national coverage and diversity of services, respect for customers and promptness.

Stamp Factory, 150 Years

The Stamp Factory was established on the basis of the “Law for the Establishment of the Stamp and Registration Duty” of February 29th, 1872, promulgated by King Carol I.

With a small staff, it started its activity on the ground floor of the Ministry of Finance. Then, starting with 1884, the workshop for printing stamps and special regime papers was transferred to the State Mint, located on Kisseleff Road.

One year after the first revenue stamps were made in the country, in 1886, General Stamps Depot (special section of the Ministry of Finance) was attached to the Stamp Factory.

Until 1901, the Stamp Factory was under a joint Directorate with the State Mint.

This is followed by the separation from the State Mint and the transfer to the subordination of the Administration of State Monopoly, together with the Match Factory, which also provided a building wing for the installation of the Factory’s workshops and warehouses. Although, over two decades, the production premises had benefited from some expansions, technological modernization and production requirements required the approach of an appropriate solution: the design and construction of a new building with a ground floor and two floors, whose construction began in 1924, being occupied with all means of printing and finishing in 1926. The building has remained until today the headquarters of the Stamp Factory. In 1928, the special attention paid to the Factory materialized in its transition to the Official Gazette Bulletin and the State Printing Houses, under the same authority of the Administration of State Monopoly.

Since the ʹ60s, the Stamp Factory is found in the structure of the State printing houses, subordinated to the Head Office of the Printing Industry controlled by the Council of Socialist Culture and Education, then of the Banca Națională a României and, currently, operating as a branch of the National Company Romanian Post.

The first works executed at the Stamp Factory were the inlaid sheets and the bank bills, in 1872, and starting with 1875, the revenue stamps were printed. The first postage stamp that belonged to the 1st issue: “Bucharest”, Carol I was printed in 1876 with clichés brought from Paris. In terms of printing technology, it was visibly modernized until 1932, when the first “Romanian Philatelic Exhibition” was organized, in which the Factory had modern equipment for printing after engraved clichés (taille-douce) and with printing patterns made by the technique of heliogravure (deep printing). Starting with 1928, the Stamp Factory assimilated in the current production works of art printed in heliogravure. In the ʹ80s, it was the only printing house in the country that had all four types of printing used in Europe (high printing, offset printing, deep printing, taille-douce printing).

Currently, the appreciated Romanian postage stamps are printed by the offset process, on a six-colour machine with computer-assisted controls.

In parallel with the activities of printing stamps and postal stationaries, the Stamp Factory also addresses activities specific to the National Company Romanian Post, meant to improve and operationalize its activity.

Thanks to Martin Hirschbühl, Richelmi Plinio and Zoltán Komlóssy

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Issued: 25.05.2023

2023 World Stamp Exhibition Ibra

Inside #????: Pseudo Stamp?

Inside #???? (On Tab): Pseudo Stamp

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Issued: 14.07.2023

Stamp Day / The centenary of the opening of the Museum of Military History (Budapest)

Inside #????: Romania #296O

Inside #????: Romania Unissued proof 1864O

Inside #????: Romania #56O

Inside #????: Romania #256P

FDC

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Romania #B464 with side overprint

Thanks to Zoltán Komlóssy, Lou Guadagno and Martin Hirschbühl

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Issued: ??.??.2023

Stamp Day / 165 Anniversary of the first Romanian Postage stamps

Thanks to Martin Hirschbühl

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Issued: 06.12.2023

Day of Giving

Inside #????-?: Pseudo Stamps

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Issued: 19.03.2024

Innovation, Step to the Future

Inside #????: Romania #1O

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Inside #???? (In margin): Romania #1O

Inside #???? (In margin): Other stamps TBI

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Inside #????: Pseudo Stamp

Thanks to Martin Hirschbühl

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Issued: 16.04.2024

World Stamp Exhibition “EFIRO 2024”

Inside #????: Romania #706O

Inside #????: Romania Tax stamps 1874O

Inside #????: Romania #14O

Inside #????: Romania #11O

Inside #????: Romania #12O

Thanks to Richelmi Plinio and Zoltán Komlóssy

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Romania #1 for Hungary, Korea (North), Lesotho, Marshall Islands, Moldova

Romania #2 for Moldova

Romania #3 for Moldova

Romania #4 for Moldova

Romania Type A2 - Pic of #5

Romania #6 and #6a (tete-beche pair) for Moldova

Romania #7O

Moldavia #10

Romania Type A3 -Pic of #11

Romania #12

Romania #14

Romania #22

Romania #23

Romania #24

Romania #29

Romania #34

Romania #45

Romania #54O

Romania #56

Romania #58

Romania #59

Romania #108

Romania #121O

Romania # 127O

Romania #158

Romania #180

Romania #188

Romania #210O

Romania #250

Romania #296

Romania #329 for Moldova

Romania type A177 for Moldova

Romania #415

Romania #B40

Scott: #428

#C57O

#C57-1O

#C57-2O

Romania #C71

Romania #706

Romania #797O

Scott: #B427

Romania #1133

Romania Mi Bl #124 for Netherland

Romania #C241 for Mongolia

Romania #2160 for Ras Al-Khaima

Romania #2205

Romania Mi #2324 imperf for Malawi

Romania #2326 for Malawi

Michel #3274 from Block 122

Mi 3284 from s/s Mi Bl 125, 1975

Mi 3438 from s/s Mi Bl 144, 1977

Mi 3746 from s/s Mi Bl 175, 1980

Romania #2968 for Chad

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Romania #3232 for Chad, Liberia

Romania #3234 for Chad

Romania #3235 for Chad

Romania #3323

Romania Mi Block #136 for Malawi

Romania #3413

Scott: #3710

Romania #3955 for Liberia

Romania #3988

Scott: #4023

Scott: #4114

Romania #4726

Scott: #4485

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Scott: #B462

Romania #4619b

Scott: #4633

Scott: #B463

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Romania #4761

Romania #???? (2016)

Romania #4887 for Central Africa, Djibuti

Romania #4888 for Liberia

Romania #????

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