About this stamp
On the Stamp
Roasted coffee beans and a steaming earthen cup of coffee, with the word “Coffee” in Hindi and English. The ₹100 stamp is printed to smell of coffee and was issued only in its miniature sheet.
A Fragrance Stamp
India Post issued a single ₹100 stamp on coffee on 23 April 2017, in a miniature sheet, as a fragrance stamp that smells of coffee. Coffee, native to the highlands of southern Ethiopia, reached Yemen and then the rest of the world; India’s commercial plantations began in the eighteenth century, under shade in the Western and Eastern Ghats, and Karnataka grows the most, followed by Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The sheet was designed by Alka Sharma; Security Printing Press, Hyderabad printed 2 lakh.
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