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50 Years of Nagaland, 2013 stamp

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  • Commemorative Stamp
  • 1 December 2013

50 Years of Nagaland

Fifty years of Nagaland as a state, inaugurated on 1 December 1963, with a hornbill and the state emblem.

Date of issue December 1, 2013
Denomination Rs. 5
Quantity printed 430000
Perforation 13¾
Watermark No Watermark
Colours Multicolor
Printing process Wet Offset
Catalogue codes Michel IN 2803 Yvert et Tellier IN 2559 Stanley Gibbons IN 2987 WADP Numbering System - WNS IN115.2013
Themes Animals (Fauna), Anniversaries and Jubilees, Birds, Festivals

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About this stamp

Nagaland at Fifty

India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 1 December 2013, fifty years after Nagaland was inaugurated as the sixteenth state of India on 1 December 1963. The stamp shows a hornbill and the state emblem; Colnect links it with the Hornbill Festival, held each December since 2000 at the Kisama Heritage Village near Kohima. Nagaland, with its capital at Kohima, borders Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur and Myanmar.

India Post has no brochure for this issue online, so this text draws on Wikipedia.

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