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  • Commemorative Stamp
  • 28 July 1984

XXIII Olympics – High Jump

High jump, for the Los Angeles Games.

Date of issue July 28, 1984
Denomination Rs. 1
Quantity printed 1500000
Printer Security Printing Press, Nashik
Perforation comb 13 x 12¾
Watermark No Watermark
Colours Multicolor
Printing process Photogravure
Credit K. Reha, S. Jah
Catalogue codes Michel IN 995 Stamp Number IN 1062 Yvert et Tellier IN 810 Stanley Gibbons IN 1128

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A high jumper clearing the bar, on a pale blue ground, with the Olympic rings and the words “XXIII Olympics” in Hindi and English, on a ₹1 stamp.

High Jump

India Post issued four stamps on 28 July 1984, the opening day of the XXIII Olympic Games at Los Angeles. India sent a contingent of about seventy, in athletics, weightlifting, wrestling, shooting, boxing and tennis. The high jump has been part of every modern Olympics since the first, at Athens in 1896.

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