The Philippines through philately and numismatics
This is a pretty famous and equally funny issue that I file under the “you’re fired!” category. Issued on May 3rd 1932 the stamp below depicts a lovely scene of the Pagsanjan Falls in Laguna, Philippines. The only problem is that the actual image on the stamp is of the Vernal Falls in Yosemite National…
Do you know anything about this item? Who made it? Why? How many were produced? Where was it made?
Postage due stamps were used in the Philippines from 1899. Read about the history of Philippine postage due stamps while taking a look at some very scarce stamps.
In Philippines Philately the Bengzon error stamp is fairly well known (Scott# PH 2371Ef). Released in 1995 the well intentioned set of stamps featuring prominent Filipinos who worked in the United Nations were famously printed with the wrong Justice Bengzon pictured. Instead of Justice Cesar C Bengzon the image used was that of Justice Jose…
In numismatics speak a “mule” is any coin minted using front and rear dies intended for two completely different coins. Most mules are the result of unintentional errors in the minting process. For example the Philippine 1918-S 5 centavos mule was the result of a minting error. Not so for the 1928-M 20 centavos mule…
Some of us struggle with those pesky scientific names given to flora and fauna. Well, you are not alone. The Flora and Fauna series of coins (1983-1994) had 2 well known minting errors due to spelling mistakes. The first was on the 10 sentimo coin from 1983 (KM#240.1). Nearly 96,000,000 coins were minted. This error…
See how postage stamps are printed via a series of individual colour overlays with this 1959 Christmas seal as an example.
I have finally collected all stamps in this series. Released 9th November 1928, this series consists of 11 overprinted airmail stamps with “L.O.F 1928” and the image of a flying boat bi-plane printed in red. Only 6,000 complete sets were produced. The stamps commemorate the arrival of 4 x Supermarine Southhampton flying boats from the…
1947 16c stamp featuring the Santa Lucia Gate – but is it really? Read about what gate actually appears on this postage stamp.
Complete set of Philippine stamps and souvenir sheets from 2019.