🌎 Country

France

📅 Year

1849

💰 Denomination

20 centimes

📮 Issue type

Definitive

🖼 Topic

Allegory & Mythology

France's first postage stamp, on sale from January 1, 1849. The new Second Republic wanted no king on its stamps, so Jacques-Jean Barre engraved Ceres, the Roman goddess of the harvest, with wheat and grapes in her hair.

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