Australia Philately: 1971 Coils & Queen Elizabeth II

Details
  • Date of Issue: 1 October 1971
  • Withdrawn Date:
  • Invalidated: 
  • Designer:
    • Reserve Bank of Australia
    • P. E. Morriss (7c)
  • Printer: Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia, Melbourne
  • Process: Photogravure
  • Cylinders: (printing order)
    • Lemon Yellow – Magenta – Dark Green – Grey (2c)
    • Buff – Olive Green – Red – Black (7c)
  • Paper: Wiggins Teape coated unwatermarked with Helecon
  • Watermark: None
  • Perf: 14.5 x imperf (ten holes at 0.40″ diameter x six holes at .35″ diameter)
  • Sheet: 
  • Quantity:
    • 1,489,103,900 (7c)

A quantity of coils containing 500 stamps were manufactured for each of the three values so that supplies of the coil stamps would be available at post offices throughout Australia when the new postal charges were introduced. Normal content of the coils is 1,000 stamps.

Subjects
  • 2c Sturt’s Desert Rose
  • 7c Sturt’s Desert Pea
  • 7c Queen Elizabeth II
First Day Cover No.31 (Official)
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