Hungary Stamps
1939
Michel 603
"The Church in Hungary"
Issued: 1st Jul 1939. Printed photogravure on watermarked 9 paper and perf 15. Size 21 x 26mm. The design and denomination is the same as Michel 670 issued in 1941 but the later issue is on watermark 10 paper.
This stamp depicts the Holy Crown of Hungary, also known as the Crown of Saint Stephen. This is the coronation crown used by the Kingdom of Hungary for most of its existence. Kings have been crowned with it since the twelfth century. The Crown was bound to the Lands of the Hungarian Crown (sometimes the Sacra Corona meant the Land, the Carpathian Basin, but it also meant the coronation body, too).
No king of Hungary was regarded as having been truly legitimate without being crowned with it. In the history of Hungary, more than fifty kings were crowned with it, up to the last, Charles IV, in 1916 (the only kings who were not so crowned were Władysław I, John II Sigismund, Gabriel Bethlen and Joseph II).
Mi 603
10 fillér
olive brown
10 fillér
olive brown
Valid until: 31st Dec 1943
Quantities: 190,572,000
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