XVI+344 pp. - colour ill. - claret cloth-bound with gold inscriptions - large format - with leather-case - printed 2009 - Poste Italiane, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Officina Carte Valori, Roma
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THE ITALIAN STATE POSTAGE STAMPS
Volume IX - Eighth Update 2002-2006

With the introduction by Claudio Scajola (Minister for Economic Development) and by Marisa Giannini (Director of the Philately Division of Poste Italiane).

The present volume, with its impressive historical research and its elegant graphics, is the eighth update of the volume by Luigi Piloni, of the series about the Italian state postage stamps which covers the period 1862-2006.

This one includes a cataloguing of stamped postal papers issued from 2002 to 2006, the first five years of the single European currency, the euro.
The historical, artistic and bibliographical profiles for each issue, the subject indexes and the collection of legislative measures form an added value for this work.