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A ₹80 sheetlet of sixteen ₹5 boxing stamps for the Rio Olympics. 25,000 were printed.
Rio 2016
India Post issued four stamps, badminton and boxing at ₹5 and shooting and wrestling at ₹25, on 5 August 2016, the opening day of the Games of the XXXI Olympiad in Rio de Janeiro, the first Summer Olympics in South America. Some 10,500 athletes from 206 National Olympic Committees competed in 306 events; India sent around 120 athletes in 15 sports. The stamps were issued in a ₹60 miniature sheet and six sheetlets: one for each sport and two of all four, in blocks and in strips. They were designed by Brahm Prakash; Security Printing Press, Hyderabad printed 0.5 million of each stamp, 0.1 million sheets and 25,000 of each sheetlet.
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