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Postage stamp series „500th Anniversary of Copernicus’ Birth”
- Creator: Waldemar Andrzejewski
- Date: 28 September 1972
- Description: Stamp no 2043: portrait of Copernicus after an engraving by Jacob van Meurs (ca 1654) and a drawing of the heliocentric pattern, print run: 7,863,000, stamp value: 40 grosz; stamp no 2044: portrait of Copernicus after an aquatint etching from the end of the 16th c. and a reverse side of a six-grosz crown coin from ca 1630, stamp value: 60 grosz, print run: 7,679,010; stamp no 2045: portrait of Copernicus after an engraving by Jeremiah Flack from ca 1645 and the coat-of-arms of Royal Prussia from the Stągiewna Gate in Gdańsk from ca 1520, stamp value: 2.50 zloty, print run: 997,020; stamp no 2046: portrait of Copernicus with a lily-of-the-valley after a wood engraving by Tobias Stimmer and a passage from Copernicus’ translation of Theophylact Simocatta’s Letters from ca 1509, stamp value: 3.40 zloty, print run: 997,020
- Location: Artur Sikora’s Collection
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Stamp block bl45 from the series „500th Anniversary of Copernicus’ Birth”
- Creator: Waldemar Andrzejewski, engraved Barbara Kowalska
- Date: 28 September 1972
- Description: Stamp block bl45 with an illustration of the Ptolemean and Copernican systems taken from A Cellarius’s L’Harmonica Microcosmica from 1660 and the emblem of the World Philatelic Exhibition 'Poland 73'. Print run of 1,233,000
- Location: Ewa Sikora’s Collection
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Stamp block bl46a from the series „500th Anniversary of Copernicus’ Birth”
- Creator: Waldemar Andrzejewski, engraved Edward Konecki
- Date: 19 August 1973
- Description: Stamp block showing a panoramic view of Poznań from 1740 after a drawing by Friedrich Bernhard Werner and an emblem of the World Philatelic Exhibition 'Poland 73'. Print run of 1,200,000 stamps
- Location: Ewa Sikora’s Collection
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