Macao SAR to Issue New StampsThe Postal Services of China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) will on March 1 begin the issuing of a set of new stamps bearing traditional instruments.The stamps bear the face value of 1 pataca (12.5 U.S. cents), 2 patacas (25 U.S. cents), 3 patacas (37.5 U.S. cents) and 4 patacas (50 U.S. cents), and 750,000 pieces will be issued for each kind of stamp, officials with the Postal Services said at a press conference Wednesday. The traditional instruments on the stamps include abacus, planer, iron and scale. Other postal products such as souvenir sheets and first-day covers will be available at the same time, the source said. Like previous years, the Postal Services plans to issue 12 sets of stamps this year. Macao has put into circulation five sets of stamps since 1996 to respectively mark the years of mouse, ox, tiger, rabbit and dragon. |
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