Showing posts with label Joint Issue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joint Issue. Show all posts

Wednesday, 9 May 2012

Thailand 2004 - Foundation of Rome and Bangkok


First Day Cover issued on 21 April 2004 in Bangkok.
 

The special postmark depicts the She-Wolf suckling Remus and Romulus, founders of Rome.
 

Description in Thai and English at the back of the FDC.


Joint issue se-tenant stamps showing the Golden Mountain in Bangkok and the Colosseum in Rome.


Saturday, 21 April 2012

Italy 2004 - Foundation of Rome and Bangkok on 21st April


A joint issue (in a souvenir sheet only in Italy) to celebrate the cities of Rome and Bangkok on the common day of their foundation, the 21st of April.  
Rome is believed to have been founded in 752 or 753BC.
Bangkok was founded in 1782, when it was moved to the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River by King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.  The stamp shows the 18th Century temple of Wat Saket, the Golden Mount.
The same were issued in Thailand, both as single stamps and as the souvenir sheet.