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Scott: #C16PP

Issued: 15.5.1947

CIPEX

Inside #C16: Stamp Collecting

Error: Roosevelt's left hand has ... six fingers!

http://puzzles.about.com/library/weekly/blstpind.htm

Lou Guadagno wrote "This is not an "error". Collectors liked the idea of an artist's mistake, so they ignored the debunking of the "error", which followed soon after it was first reported in the philatelic press.

The "sixth finger" is only the inside of F.D.R.'s shirt cuff, as you can see in the photo the stamp design was taken from. The artists reproduced F.D.R. from the photo quite accurately, but probably would have inscribed another few lines to delineate the shadow inside the cuff better, if they knew the derision they would face later."

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Scott: #B95O

Issued: 6.3.1948

Stamp Day

Inside #B95: Monaco Type A1P (B)

(Pic of #1)

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Scott: #461P

Issued: 1.6.1960

75th Anniversary, Monaco Stamps

Inside #461: Sardinia #12P

Inside #461: Monaco #1P

Inside #461: France #15P

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Scott: #541P

Issued: 3.5.1963

Centenary of the First International Postal Conference

Inside #541: Stamps on Envelopes

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Scott: #550P

Issued: 12.12.1963

Int'l. Philatelic and Education Expo

Inside #550: Stamp Collecting

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Scott: #970P

Issued: 13.5.1975

ARPHILA '75

Inside #970: Pseudo Stamp

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Scott: #972P

Issued: 13.5.1975

Fight against Cancer

Inside #972: Pseudo Stamp

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Scott: #1021P

Issued: 3.5.1976

American Bicentennial

Inside #1021: US# 627P(Liberia)

(Thanks to Kathy Sulzner)

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Scott: #1178-80P

Issued: 30.4.1979

Europa

Inside #1178: Similar to Monaco #J60P (B)

Inside #1179: Similar to Monaco #J57P (B)

Inside #1180: Similar to Monaco #J59P (B)

Scott: #1180aP

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Scott: #1193P

Issued: 12.11.1979

Death Centenary of Sir Rowland Hill

Inside #1193: G.B. #1

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Scott: #1461-3P

Issued: 25.3.1985

Centenary, Monaco Stamps

Inside #1461-3: Monaco #1P

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StickerP

5.12.1985

Exposition Philatelique

Inside: Monaco #1 and more on the background

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Scott: #1500P

Issued: 5.12.1985

Centenary, Monaco Stamps

Inside #1500a: Monaco Type A1P (B) (Pic of #2)

Inside #1500b: Monaco Type A2P (B) (Pic of #15)

Inside #1500c: Monaco Type A13P (B) (Pic of #65)

Inside #1500d: Monaco Type A83P (B) (Pic of #339)

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Scott: #1575P

Issued: 23.4.1987

Stamp Day

Inside #1575: Stamp Collecting

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Scott: #1586-9O

Issued: 28.7.1987

Honoring Philately

Inside #1586-9: Pseudo Stamp

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Scott: #1705P

Issued: 15.3.1990

150th Anniversary, Penny Black

Inside #1705: G.B. #1

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Scott: #1782O

Issued: 7.11.1991

Centenary, Prince Albert I Stamps

Inside #1782a-c: Monaco Type A2 in Red, Green & Violet (B) (Pic of #15P)

Scott: #1782a-cO

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Scott: #1841O

Issued: 20.10.1992

Postal Museum

Inside #1841a: Sardinia #13cO

Inside #1841b: France#12O

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Scott: #1863P

Issued: 28.7.1993

Admission to the UN

Inside #1863b: Monaco Type A529P (B)

(Pic of #1668P)

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Scott: #1882P

Issued: 10.1.1993

Centenary Monaco Philatelic Union

Inside #1882: Monaco #11O

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Scott: #1953P

Issued: 8.5.1995

Stamp & Coin Museum

Inside #1953: Monaco #927O

Inside #1953: Monaco #294O

Scott: #1953aO, #1953bO, #1953cO

Lou Wrote: Martin's email reminded me that I never advised my IDs for the stamps on the museum left doorway-- mainly because of the two images that have eluded me all these years, the third stamp in the top row, and the second stamp in the fourth row.  In all the engraved stamps showing the Museum entrance, the images are much simplified, but there are actual stamps (and coins) in the panels. I emailed the Museum years ago, asking for a scan of a photo of the left panel, but got no reply. Then, some time ago, two friends visited Monaco and I gave them instructions to take pictures for me, but they photographed the wrong museum!  I'm sure a photo will let me ID my mystery stamps, so maybe someday.... However, attached are the stamps I have IDs (and actual stamps) from top to bottom.

Michael later found a better picture of the entrance, and added his candidate for the second stamp on the fourth row.

	Monaco #1229	Monaco #J65	TBI
	Monaco #1861	Monaco #1360
	Monaco #C39	Monaco #1314
	Monaco #1813b
	Monaco #1322a-d	Monaco #C42

Thanks to Lou Guadagno and Michael Merritt

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Scott: #2020-2P

Issued: 14.10.1996

Stamp & Coin Museum

Inside #2020-2: Printing and Engraving Stamps

Scott: #2022aP

Martin Hirschbühl wrote: As you might know, this issue is part of Rammy's fabulous online-catalog; but the details have not yet been investigated. All I can say is that the top left blob on the left part of entrance (on 10.00) seems to be the Monaco-stamp of 1980, based upon Ingres famous nude-painting "the source".

The others? No idea...... While on the 5.00 stamp at right, the background (ancient printing) is quite similar to the farewell-issue of our former Swiss postal-printing-house in Berne (1930 to 2002), I guess, it's not a SOS, but both issues are based on the original artwork by A. Bosse (see below).

The middle stamp (10.00) is surely a SOS.....but not a Martin-SOS.....while the one at right (5.00) is probably no SOS

And I say – Martin is right, but I like those stamps and there is some connection - so I decided to let them stay…:)

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Scott: #2024O

Issued: 08.01.1997

700th Anniversary, Grimaldi Dynasty

Inside #2024j: Monaco #1P

Thanks to Lloyd Gilbert

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Scott: #2034aP

(Pair 2033, 2034)

Issued: 20.8.1997

60^th Anniversary, Monaco Philatelic Office / Monaco '97

Inside #2033-4: Pseudo Stamps

Scott: #2034bP

(5x2033, 5x2034)

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Scott: #2045P

Issued: 29.5.1997

Pacific '97, World Stamp Exhibition in San Francisco (USA)

Inside #2045: Monaco #1995P

Inside #2045: US #1O

Inside #2045: US #2O

Lou wrote: It bothered me that the designer of Monaco # 2045 painted rather poor copies of U.S. #s 1-2 for the Pacific ’97 commemorative stamp and then compounded that by changing the colors too.

Then, about a year ago, I happened to come across an auction catalog of U. S. stamps on line, and while going thru it for scans to copy for my files, I read that various color proofs had been prepared for the first U. S. stamps.  I decided to do some further research, and after several attempts I found two proofs that closely match those on the Monaco stamp. It can’t be a coincidence that the artist changed the colors and just happened to pick two odd colors that proofs were made in— he must have been aware of the trial color proofs. These are listed in the Scott Specialized Catalogue of United States Stamps.

U. S. #1TC1	U. S. #2TC1

I have changed my database from “U. S. # 1, 2— artist representations in changed colors” to read “U. S. #1TC1, 2TC1— artist representations of 1847 trial color proofs”.

Now I like this stamp.

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Scott: #2111P

Issued: 18.1.1999

Monaco '99

Inside #2111: France #15O

Scott: #2111P

Scott: #2111P

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Scott: #2131P

Issued: 9.5.1999

50 years of the reign of Prince Raunier III

Inside #2131: Monaco #256O (1950)

Inside #2131: Monaco #337P (1955)

Inside #2131: Monaco #464O (1960)

Inside #2131: Monaco #937P (1974)

Inside #2131: Monaco #1287P (1981)

Inside #2131: Monaco #1669O (1989)

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Scott: #2123P, #2133P

Issued: 5.5.1999 / 2.7.1999

Philexfrance 99, world stamp exhibition in Paris (France)

Inside #2123, #2133: France #11O

(thanks to Komlóssy Zoltán for the scan)

Inside #2133: France #36O

Inside #2133: France #92P

Inside #2133: Monaco #3O

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Scott: #2138-9P

Issued: 3.7.1999 / 26.9.1999

Jubilee philatelic and numismatic fair

Inside #2138: Monaco #1793AP

Inside #2139: Monaco #257O

Thanks to Lou for the scans

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Scott: #2146P

Issued: 13.12.1999

International Stamp Exhibition MONACO 2000

Inside #2146: Pseudo Stamps

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Scott: #2173P

Issued: 7.7.2000

World Stamp USA-Philatelic Exhibition

Inside #2173: Stamps on Envelopes

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Scott: #2193P

Issued: 2.12.2000

150^th Anniversary, Stamps of Sardinia

Inside #2193: Italy - Sardinia #1O

Inside #2193: Italy - Sardinia #2O

Inside #2193: Italy - Sardinia #3O

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Scott: #2185P

Issued: 1.12.2001

International Stamp Exhibition MONACO 2000

Inside #2185: Pseudo Stamps

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Scott: #2195O

Issued: 2.12.2000

ASCAT 2000 Award

Inside #2195: Monaco #1433O

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Scott: #2206P

Issued: 14.5.2001

50^th Anniversary, Prince Rainier III (Literature Prize of Monaco)

Inside #2206: Monaco #1952O

Modified: "Monaco", value obscured

Thanks to Lou

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Scott: #2208O

Issued: 09.06.2001

International Stamp Exhibition BELGICA 2001

Inside #2208: Pseudo Stamps

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Scott: #2209P

Issued: 02.07.2001

Postcard, Coin and Stamp Exhibition, Fontvielle 2001

Inside #2209: Pseudo Stamps

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Scott: #2255P

Issued: 31.5.2002

MONACOPHIL 2002

Inside #2255: Monaco #2022P

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Scott: #2292P

Issued: 2.6.2003

GRAND BOURSE 2003

Inside #2292: Pseudo Stamps

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Scott: #2320O

Issued: 29.1.2004

20th Anniversary of the Princess Grace Irish Library

Inside #2320: Monaco #1997O

(Design Component, modified: bust only, image reversed)

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #2344O

Issued: 26.6.2004

Salon Du Timbre

Inside #2344: Pseudo Stamps

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Lou wrote: For years, I was unhappy with the Club's checklist Type B category (and its name), as many listed issues were what I considered to be reprintings or only contained portions of previous stamps.  For the most part, I ignored them, but little by little, I came across issues I wanted in my collection. Type B was a bit of a catch-all title and included stamps I definitely would not collect, so I came up with a new named category-- SoS Design Components (SoSDC)-- for those I felt should be in the listings. With it, I could identify the exact portions of stamps that had been reproduced, separating that from the superfluous other areas. With these parameters I also found many other issues that I added to my listings and collection.

Monaco is the source of two:

Monaco: #2041 and Slania Prince Rainier III essay.

In 1997, Monaco issued Sc #2041 to commemorate Prince Rainier's 1996 ASCAT award for his contributions to philately. In addition to the award cup and a view of the entrance to the Monaco Philatelic Museum, was a portrait of Rainier. I assumed the artwork was from a previous issue and searched my catalogs for it with no success, and so just made a note of the stamp. Some time later, while searching on line for info on another Monaco stamp, I came across a reference that the portrait was from an engraving by Czeslaw Slania that had not been accepted for use for a previous issue, so under my new SoSDC guidelines, I entered Sc #2041 to my collection/lists as reproducing a stamp essay. I noted that the portrait was printed in offset lithography and that the small image did not reproduce the fine lines of the Slania engraving very well. Copies of the Slania essay have been offered on line at prices I could not afford, but I added a scan of one to my image database.

Monaco: #2396

Then, in 2005, after the death of Rainier, a very handsome memorial souvenir sheet, Sc #2396, was issued, and the Slania engraved essay was used as the main design, recess printed as it should be. In my data base, I referenced the essay, but since the essay had appeared on a previous stamp, the S/S was a SoSDC and I listed Sc #2041 DC as the stamp shown. On my Vario page, I "mounted" both #2396 and #2041 which I think show the difference in the two printing techniques very well..

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #2406P

Issued: 30.1.2006

10^th Anniversary of the opening of the Stamp and Coin Museum

Inside #2406: Monaco #C81P

This Museum, wanted by H.S.H. the Prince Rainier, replaced the postal Museum created in 1950 in the Palace and enables the public to admire His philatelic and numismatic Collections. It is in the vanguard of the museology and – a unique fact – gathers together all the documents, tools and phases of printing and striking bound to both these fiduciary symbols of Sovereignty that directly come under the authority of the Monegasque Sovereigns Who annotate, choose and approve the models, color proofs, steels and plasters, to make up the worldly most complete national collection, since these different elements are usually kept by several Services in other countries. The Museum also shelters the philatelic Exhibitions of the Club of Monte-Carlo and displays private collections of very high level punctually.

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Scott: #2419P

Issued: 27.5.2006

Washington 2006

Inside #2419: Pseudo Stamp

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Scott: #2440P

Issued: 1.12.2006

70 Years of the Stamp Issuing Office &

20 Years of the Consultative Commission of the

Philatelic Collection of H.S.H. the Prince of Monaco

Inside #2440(on top FDC): Monaco #2401P

Inside #2440: Monaco #2412O

Inside #2440: Monaco #9O

Inside #2440 (on bottom cover): Sardinia #12cO

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #2465-6P

Issued: 4.5.2007

Europa - Centenary of Scouting

Inside #2466: Cape of Good Hope #179O

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Scott: #2467P

Issued: 25.6.2007

Grande Bourse 2007

Inside #2467: Pseudo Stamp

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Scott: #2500-1P

Issued: 5.5.2008

Europa-The Letter

Inside #2500: Stamps on Envelopes

Inside #2501: Stamp on Envelope

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Scott: #2530P

Issued: 7.2.2009

MonacoPhil

Inside #2530: Monaco #10O

Inside #2530: Monaco #2459O

Inside #2530: Monaco #2399P

Inside #2530: Monaco #2371O

Inside #2530: Monaco #B66O

(Thanks to Maurizio Misinato)

Inside #2530: Monaco #C83P

Inside #2530: Monaco #2424O

Inside #2530: Monaco #2463P

Inside #2530: Monaco #2452a-bO

Inside #2530: Monaco #2454P

An international philatelic event under the High Patronage of H.S.H. Prince Albert II, MonacoPhil will take place from December 4 to 6, 2009. At the same time as the traditional exhibition of the “100 among the rarest stamps and philatelic documents in the world”, this 2009 event will focus on Belgium philately through a collective exhibition.

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Scott: #2558P

Issued: 17.6.2009

7th Grande bourse 2009 (27.9.2009)

Inside #2558: Monaco #2073P

Inside #2558: Monaco #2463O

Inside #2558: Monaco #2436O

Inside #2558: Monaco #1925P

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #2574P

Issued: 04.12.2009

2009 ASCAT GRAND PRIX

Inside #2574: U.S. #85AO

ASCAT, the International Association of Stamp Catalogue Publishers, will give the 2009 Grand Prix for Philately to William H. Gross, one of the very few people to have gathered a complete collection of 19th-century classical American stamps. This collection was completed in 2005 with one of the two known examples of the 1-cent “Z Grill” stamp obtained in exchange for a block of four “Inverted Jenny” stamps. Since 2007, he has been auctioning off some of his collections for the benefit of humanitarian associations, Doctors without Borders in particular.

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #2595P

Issued: 07.05.2010

London 2010 Festival of Stamps

Inside #2595: Pseudo Stamp

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Scott: #2645P

Issued: 12.08.2011

Grand Bourse 2011

Inside #2645: The “buildings” are made up of stamps

Inside #2645: Monaco #2528O

Inside #2645: Monaco #2520a-cO

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #2647P

Issued: 29.08.2011

MonacoPhil 2011

Inside #2647:

Monaco #649P	Monaco #648P	Monaco #650P	Bulgaria #4487bO
Monaco #2157gO	Monaco #2560O	Fr. Southern & Antarctic Terr. #C32O	Monaco #2308dO

Inside #2647: The “buildings” are also made up of stamps

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #2731O

Issued: 10.07.2013

21^st Grande Bourse

Inside #2731: Monaco #2488P

Inside #2731: Monaco #2592O

Inside #2731: TBI

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #2771O

Issued: 22.08.2014

22^nd Grande Bourse

Inside #2771: Monaco #2640O

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #2812P

Issued: 03.09.2015

23^rd Grande Bourse 2015

Inside #2812: Pseudo Stamp

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Scott: #2858O

Issued: 24.08.2016

24^nd Grande Bourse 2016

Inside #2858: Monaco #2P

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Scott: #3030O

Issued: 03.11.2020

The 150th Anniversary of the Post Mail "Balloons Montes"

Inside #3030: France #57P

Lou wrote: The reproduced balloon monte cover was sent from besieged Paris to Monaco in 1870,

during the Franco-Prussian War, and the first Monaco stamps were not issued until 1885.

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Scott: #3070O

Issued: 15.10.2021

25th Anniversary of the Monaco Stamp and Coin Museum

Inside #3070: Monaco #1129O

Inside #3070: Monaco #1813bO

Inside #3070: Monaco #1860O

Inside #3070: Monaco #2699P

Lou Wrote: Monaco, on October 15, issued a 4 v S/S to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Monaco Stamp and Coin Museum. On three of the stamps and continued into the margins are simplified outlines of Monaco stamps from 1980, 1992 and 1993, and in the margin is a modified Prince Albert II definitive from 2012 in an unissued color with all the inscriptions except  MONACO omitted.

I like this very good looking S/S and the fact that identifying the SoS was an added small challenge.

It also reminded me that I have two other Monaco issues with a SoS not identified on our Rammy/Plinio sites. On Monaco Sc #2111, issued for Monaco '99, only the design motif of the museum, without perf'ed margins and value tablet of Sc #2022 issued in 1996 is reproduced, and the same stamp in a simplified outline is shown on Sc #2055 issued for Monacophil 2002.

Monaco #2022

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #3212O

Issued: 05.12.2024

Monacophil 2024

Inside #3212: Mauritius #2O

Inside #3212: Italy, Two Sicilies #16O

Inside #3212: France #113P

Inside #3212: Japan #4h error (inverted denomination 1871)O

Inside #3212: France #7O

Inside #3212: Monaco #B18O

Lou wrote: The SoS include some very rare stamps, in particular, Japan # 4h, the unique inverted denomination error, and Mauritius # 2. The Monaco Princess Charlotte wedding stamp # B18 is noted only by the date of the wedding overprinted on a  5fr+5fr semi-postal charity issue, originally to benefit French war orphans. Unless there is an unlisted variety with some value, the odd stamp reproduced is France #113, a common definitive from 1900.

Thanks to Zoltán Komlóssy and Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #????O

Issued: 09.09.2025

The 31st Grande Bourse

Inside #????: Monaco #13O

Thanks to Zoltán Komlóssy

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Scott: #????O

Issued: 24.03.2026

30th Anniversary of the Stamp and Coin Museum

Inside #????: Monaco #C83O (Changed color)

Lou wrote: It is strange that the designer changed the color of the 20Fr SoS when the 14Fr of the same issue is already red.  Since the issue is for the 30th Anniversary of the Stamp and Coin Museum, perhaps the stamp depicts a color proof.

Monaco #C82

Thanks to Zoltán Komlóssy and Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #????O

Issued: 16.04.2026

70th anniversary of the wedding of Prince Rainier III and Grace Kelly

Inside #????: Monaco #366P

Modified - new value, changed color

Lou wrote: Back in 1956, I bought the Wedding set and a fdc, as my uncle-mentor thought they would be a good buy (they weren't). After I started collecting SoS, I waited patiently for almost 60 years, for Monaco to commemorate an anniversary, so that I could at least put one of the issue to use on a combo page in an album. So, now that I am no longer acquiring SoS new issues, Monaco is producing a s/s with a modified Wedding stamp in a handsome color that is different from the five colors of the originals for postage. Using the unspoken rules of the Club for when a matching SoS can't be found, the first stamp of the issue is used, so if I were getting the s/s I would have to add the green Monaco #366 to the page, like I am adding it to my database.

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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