I was really surprised to find these at the Post Office. This is something you don’t expect to be issued in Cambodia. Anyways, this is a set of five definitive stamps under the theme prehistoric animals/dinosaurs and was issued in January 2000. It also included a souvenir sheet. From top to bottom, clockwise: diplodocus, stegosaurus, and euplocephalus.
I sent this cover to a guy in Slovakia who is into prehistoric animals. Another one is going out to a friend in Canada :) Sadly, when I came back to the philately department of the post office, I was told that they don’t have anymore stocks of these stamps.
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I must admit, not what you'd associate with Cambodia!
Hi Sheila, you are right! I thought so, too.
I must admit that I don't know whether dinosaurs ever lived in Cambodia, but I imagine the stamps were popular with collectors.
that's pretty interesting! Yhanks for participating.
The inclusion of the skeletons makes these stamps so much more effective.
Nice story. However since 1965 when the first stamp depicted dinosaurs issued by San Marino and Poland, almost every country around the world issues some stamps related to dinosaurs.
Some overview of such stamps: http://www.paleophilatelie.eu/stamps_overview.html
Nice post i rate it. Most of these animal's information can be found on Prehistoric animals
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