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Catalog of Bulgarian Postage Stamps for 1909 година 2 emissions

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БК 72 72 (MI BG 69)
БК 73 73 (MI BG 65B)
БК 74 74 (MI BG 70)
Artist: Stefan Badzhov
Paper: Letterpress
Printing: for BC 72 — 1,000,000, for BC 73 — 900,000, for BC 74 — 800,000
Additional Information There are stamps with horizontally or vertically offset overprints. In some cases, the horizontal offset is significant and the overprint falls on two adjastotinka stamps in the sheet, with "0" at the left and "1" at the right end of the stamp in the case of 73, respectively "5" - at the left and "2" - at the right, in the case of 74. In these cases, only one of the digits appears on the stamps in the final vertical columns of the postal sheet: "1" or "0", respectively "2" or "5". There are stamps with an inverted, double overprint, with a double overprint - one inverted, as well as pairs - one stamp without an overprint. Of the 73 stamps, there are overprints on the reverse (gum) side of the stamp. 74 are overprinted with two types of ink: carmine and keremi day red. Of the 72 stamps, there are green and black overprints, and of the 74 stamps with a blue overprint (proof). The overprints are on stamps from the 1901 order, the vintages on the leaves have an overprint "1909". Pairs with the vintage "1901" and the overprint "1909" are rarer. With the same overprint as 73 - see 68.
BC № Nominal MNH Used/CTO
BC 72 5 on 15 stotinki 2.05 € 0.51 €
BC 73 10 on 15 stotinki 3.07 € 0.51 €
BC 74 25 on 30 stotinki 12.78 € 1.02 €
Series Total 17.90 € 2.05 €
БК 75 75 (MI BG 71)
БК 76 76 (MI BG 72)
БК 77 77 (MI BG 73)
БК 78 78 (MI BG 74)
БК 79 79 (MI BG 75)
Artist: unknown
Paper: Letterpress
Printing: for BC 75 — 2,300,000, for BC 76 — 370,000, for BC 77 — 408,000, for BC 78 — 395,000, for BC 79 — 360,000
Additional Information There are stamps with a horizontally or vertically shifted overprint. With a significant horizontal shift, the overprint falls on two adjastotinka stamps in the sheet, with 75-77 of the year designation "09" on the left, and "19" on the right edge of the stamp. In these cases, the stamps from the final vertical columns of the postal sheet have only "19" or only "09". With a significant horizontal shift of the overprint at 78-79, the left edge has the numbers "09" and "0", the right - "19" and "1", and the final stamps - only "19" and "1", or only "09" and "0". As a result of a significant vertical shift at 78-79, there are overprints with "10" above "1909", only "1909" or only "10". There are also copies with overprints "909" and "1", or "9" and "190". With such displacements of the end stamps, there are only "1", "190", "909" or 9". From 76, 77 and 79 there are "1990" instead of "1909", and from 77 there are "1969" and "1999". Stamps with dashes, colons, etc., are found before or after the overprints of the year and the nominal value. There are stamps with an inverted, double overprint, with a double overprint - one inverted, as well as pairs - one stamp without an overprint. There are also with an overprint on the reverse (gummed) side. From 77 there are with red and green, and from 79 with a black overprint (proofs). The overprints were made on stamps "Little Lion" with the designation G HUALOUG ("Paris" edition) - 75, 76, 77 and 79, and with the designation G 123L ("Sofia" edition) -75,76, 78. 75 and 76 on the "Paris" edition are rarer. The year "1909" is overprinted on 75-79, making these invalid "Little Lion" stamps valid again with the old (75 and 76) or newly overprinted values ​​(77-79).
BC № Nominal MNH Used/CTO
BC 75 1909 black overprint on 1 stotinka 1.53 € 0.51 €
BC 76 1909 black overprint on 5 stotinki 1.53 € 0.51 €
BC 77 1909 and 5 black overprint on 30 stotinki 1.28 € 0.26 €
BC 78 1909 and 10 black overprint on 15 stotinki 2.05 € 0.26 €
BC 79 1909 and 10 red overprint on 50 stotinki 1.28 € 0.51 €
Series Total 7.67 € 2.05 €
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