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On the Stamp
The 1853 “Lion and Palm Tree” essay, a lion walking before a palm tree above the words “Half Anna”, with the words “INPEX-77” and “Lion & Palm Tree” in Hindi and English, on a ₹2 stamp.
The Lion and Palm Tree
India Post issued two stamps on 12 October 1977 for INPEX-77, the third India National Philatelic Exhibition, held at Bangalore from 12 to 16 October 1977 after the first two at New Delhi in 1970 and Calcutta in 1975. The ₹2 stamp shows a colour trial of one of two designs prepared at the Calcutta Mint in 1853 for India’s first stamps. It was copied from Wyon’s design for the gold mohur, and a die was engraved for embossed stamps, but the design was never used. The trial is in the National Philatelic Museum, New Delhi.
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