Euromed 2016 - Fish of the Mediterranean

Designer: Maximos Christou

For the third year running member states of the Postal Union for the Mediterranean  “Euromed”  are issuing a single stamp. This year’s common theme is “Fish of the Mediterranean”.

The Mediterranean sea is home to more than 1.700 species of fish and long before the Agricultural Revolution fishing villages might have appeared along the coastlines.

Archaeologists excavating 30.000 year old human sites have found only seashells from the Mediterranean but we can surmise that fish have been a staple diet of humans  from times immemorial.

The €1,88 stamp depicts a montage of give species, namely: The Painted Comber, the Parrot Fish, the Peacock Wrasse, the Annular Sea Bream and the Snapper as symbols of the sea wealth.


Quantities:
€1,88: 55.000

FDC’s:
€1,24: 6.000