Europa Cept postage stamps year 1992 Complete issue

Europa Cept postage stamps year 1992 Complete issue Unused MNH

The Europa CEPT postage stamp issue for 1992 had a common theme across all participating countries.

• Theme: 500 years of the discovery of the Americas (commemorating Christopher Columbus’s voyage).
• Participants: Approximately 42 countries issued stamps for the 1992 Europa CEPT series. This included new participants like Albania and Croatia.
• Issue Composition: The complete issue generally consisted of a total number of stamps and often souvenir sheets (miniature sheets) across all the participating postal administrations. One source mentions 94 stamps + 14 Souvenir Sheets across the 42 countries for the complete issue.

The stamps typically feature designs related to the theme, such as maps of the Americas, sailing ships, or Christopher Columbus himself. 1992 was also the last year that the CEPT logo was used on these stamps, as the organization that coordinated the issues changed to PostEurop in 1993.

Because the Europa CEPT issues are produced by multiple independent postal administrations, a “complete issue” means acquiring all the individual stamps and souvenir sheets released by every participating country for that specific theme and year.