Liechtenstein: Souvenir Sheet “100 Years of the Swiss Franc” Reaches 4th Place in Europe

With the souvenir sheet “100 Years of the Swiss Franc in the Principality of Liechtenstein,” Liechtenstein achieved a notable fourth place in the readers’ poll “Europe’s Most Beautiful Stamp 2024” conducted by the German magazine Deutsche Briefmarken-Revue (which has unfortunately since been discontinued). The issue commemorates an important chapter in Liechtenstein’s economic and monetary history. Read More …

June 2024 – New issues from Liechtenstein

40 years of women’s voting rights in Liechtenstein Women’s voting was introduced in the Principality of Liechtenstein in 1984, the last country in Europe to do so. The late introduction was the result of a conservative and patriarchal social structure, deeply rooted in traditional and cultural values. The Catholic Church also had considerable influence and Read More …

December 2022 – Neuheiten der Liechtensteinischen Philatelie

GLEICHSTELLUNG (Equality) An interesting stamp of the November issue is the “Equal=Equal” special stamp. The stamp symbolizes equality in all spheres of society. Equality means measures of adjustment of life situation of equal heterogeneous groups within the population (e.g. man-woman; hetero- and homosexual, poor-rich, hearing-deaf, seeing-blind). Only if we regard the differences as equal, we Read More …

September 2022 – New issues of Liechtenstein Postal Offics

Beim Klicken auf die Überschriften gelangen Sie zur Liehtensteinischen Post mit noch mehr Informationen und Artikeln zu den einzelnen Ausgaben Princely treasures – castles and palaces These three stamps are part of the series “Treasures from the Princely Collections”. They are three gouaches (don’t worry, I had to read up on what they are: goauche Read More …