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Stamp of Romania; 1969; commemorative stamp of the issue "Frescos from Romanian Monasteries"; stamp is showing a fresco from the "Moldavian Monastery" at the Romanian village Vatra Moldoviței (contemporary district of Suceava, the "Suceava" is a river); The stamp motive shows the a detail of the fresco painting "Besieged Constantinople Saved by an Icon" by an unknown artist.; meant is not how often called the siege of 626 A.D., rather it's illustrated the so-called "Second Siege of Constaninople by the Ottoimans" in 1453; stamp postmarked
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The monastery was built in 1532 during the reign of the Moldovian ruler Petru IV Rareș. The "Annunciation Church" of this monastery is decorated with many frescos in the interior as well as at exterior "...finished five years after the church was built ... The large and vivid Siege of Constantinople frescoes were inspired by a poem dedicated to the Virgin Mary, as a thanksgiving for her intervention in saving Constantinople from a Persian attack....". ([1]))
Stamp: Michel: No. 2818; Yvert & Tellier: No. 2501; Scott: No. 2146
Color: multicolored with gold
Watermark: none
Nominal value: 1.75 L (Lei)
Postage validity: from 15 December 1969 until ?

Stamp picture size (printed area of a single stamp without signature line): 49.0 x 36.0 mm
Date (first issue day of the stamp)
Source scan of original
Author "Posta Romana"
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Other versions
  • View to the "Annunciation Church" of the Moldavian Monastery in 2012
    View to the "Annunciation Church" of the Moldavian Monastery in 2012
  • The original fresco at the "Moldovian Monastery"
    The original fresco at the "Moldovian Monastery"
  • Detail from the depicted fresco, showing the town Constantinople during the siege
    Detail from the depicted fresco, showing the town Constantinople during the siege
  • A greater view to this fresco
    A greater view to this fresco
  • The depicted painting on an outer wall in the Voronet Monastery in 2016
    The depicted painting on an outer wall in the Voronet Monastery in 2016
Picture description Fresco "Besieged Constantinople Saved by an Icon"
First day of issue
Publisher "Posta Romana"
Design Ion Dumitrana (1923-1976) (design)
Printer "Fabrica de Timbre", Bucharest
Printing technique Photogravure
Circulation 1,500,000
Perforation Comb perforation, K 13½
MICHEL Nr. Rumänien, Nr. 2818
SCOTT Nr. Romania, No. 2146

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