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  • Commemorative Stamp
  • 17 July 1976

XXI Olympic Games – Shooting

Shooting, for the Montreal Olympics.

Date of issue July 17, 1976
Denomination 25 p
Quantity printed 3000000
Printer Security Printing Press, Nashik
Perforation comb 13¼
Watermark No Watermark
Colours Multicolor
Printing process Photogravure
Credit Gopi Gajwani
Catalogue codes Michel IN 680 Stamp Number IN 724 Yvert et Tellier IN 484 Stanley Gibbons IN 814

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A shooting target with a red bull’s-eye among the Olympic rings, with the words “XXI Olympic Games” in Hindi and English, on a 25 paise stamp.

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India Post issued four stamps on 17 July 1976 for the XXI Olympic Games, held at Montreal from 17 July to 1 August 1976: shooting, the shot put, hockey and sprinting.

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