🌎 Country

Spain

📅 Year

1850

💰 Denomination

6 cuartos

📮 Issue type

Definitive

🖼 Topic

Royalty

Queen Isabella II decreed in October 1849 that Spain would adopt postage stamps, and the first five values, from 6 cuartos up to 10 reales, went on sale on 1 January 1850. All of them carried her portrait, printed by lithography and issued without perforations on unwatermarked paper. They lasted only a year before a new set with a fresh portrait replaced them.

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