UN Geneva stamps year 2006 Flags and Coins MSS

UN Geneva stamps year 2006 Flags and Coins MSS MNH

The Flags and Coins issue was a major release for the UNPA in 2006 and marked the start of a new, highly collectible series.

Here are the details for the UN Geneva issue:

🪙 UN Geneva “Flags and Coins” Stamp Issue (2006)

• Issue Date: The first set of the Flags and Coins series was released on October 5, 2006.
• Format: The issue was a Pane of eight se-tenant stamps. Each of the eight stamps in the pane featured the flag and a coin from a different UN Member State.
• Denomination: The UN Geneva stamps in this pane were denominated in Swiss Francs (Fr). The common face value for the stamps in the 2006 Geneva pane was Fr 1.00 each (total face value of Fr 8.00 per pane), although one source mentions a Fr 1.00 stamp and a Fr 1.30 stamp being released around this time for the series.
  • Note: Later issues in the series had different Swiss Franc denominations.
• Catalog Numbers: The full set of eight stamps is commonly cataloged as UN Geneva Scott #464a-h (or sometimes a range like 553-560 in other catalogs).
• The Countries Featured: The initial 2006 Geneva pane featured the flags and coins of the following eight UN Member States:
  1. Argentina
  2. Bolivia
  3. Honduras
  4. Paraguay
  5. Benin
  6. Gabon
  7. Zambia
  8. Uganda

The series ran for several years, with new sets issued annually or near-annually to feature the flags and currencies of all then-current UN Member States across the New York, Geneva, and Vienna offices.