W. Andrzejewski

Postage stamp series 500th Anniversary of Copernicus' Birth with portraits of Copernicus

28 September 1972

Stamp no 2043: portrait of Copernicus after an engraving by Jacob van Maurs (ca 1654) and a drawing of the heliocentric pattern, print run: 7,863,000, stamp value: 40 grosz; stamp no 2044: portrait of Copernicus after an aquatint etching from the end of the 16th c. and a reverse side of a six-grosz crown coin from ca 1630, stamp value: 60 grosz, print run: 7,679,010; stamp no 2045: portrait of Copernicus after an engraving by Jeremiah Flack from ca 1645 and the coat-of-arms of Royal Prussia from the Stągiewna Gate in Gdańsk from ca 1520, stamp value: 2.50 zloty, print run: 997,020; stamp no 2046: portrait of Copernicus with a lily-of-the-valley after a wood engraving by Tobias Stimmer and a passage from Copernicus' translation of Theophylact Simocatta's Letters from ca 1509, stamp value: 3.40 zloty, print run: 997,020

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