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Greece has been a prolific issuer of postal tax stamps. Greece's first postal tax stamp was issued in 1914. The revenue raised went to the Red Cross for relief of victims of the First and Second Balkan Wars.

 


GREECE
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USED Souvenir Sheet, FDC-unaddressed, 150th Anniversary of Greek Postal Service ...

New Greece: name given to areas of Turkey occupied by Greece; included Macedonia, Epirus and some Aegean islands; 1912: "Greek Administration" overprint on stamps of Greece in Greek ...

Postal & Philatelic Museum of Greece, 5 Stadiou Square & Fokianou Street, Athens, Greece
Post Museum of Egypt
Postal Museum of Belgium
The Postal Museum, Nove mlyny 2, Nove mlyny 2, 110 00 Praha 1, Czechoslovakia
Postal Museum of Finland ...

GSDA: Greek Stamp Dealers Association [Greece] [abbr.].
Guarantee Mark: 1.

New pages for Jersey, Bohemia and Moravia, Danzig, Greece, Netherlands Indies, Yugoslavia, Luxembourg, Moldova, Ruanda-Urundi, Paraguay, Rhodesia - Recent additions to New Zealand, Spain, Italy, Bulgaria, Belgium (publibels), Germany, Canada, ...

If it says ATHENS, you should first look to see if it as a stamp from Greece. If it is a stamp from the United States, however, then the fun begins. Why? Well, because several States in the USA have towns called Athens.

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