stamps, coins, medals

GREECE: Unusual postal cover, franked with 2 greek postage stamps and a €0.04 revenue stamp for the Engineers Pension Fund, all cancelled with ATHINA KENTRO DIALOGIS (Athens Sorting Centre) regular postmark, circa 2008.

RUSSIA: two beautiful modern stamps (50 + 3 rubles) of 2109 definitive issue cancelled with postmark "ПОЧТА РОССИИ - АНАПА 353459 КРАСОД. КР. - 13062021"

CANADA: postage stamps issued on May 20, 2020 commemorating the centenary of radio broadcasting.

Official commemorative cover issued by Hellenic Post for the centenary of XII Infantry Division (1920).

GREECE: EUROPA postage stamp set 2020. The two stamps show Greek paddle steamer "Prince Maximilian" ("Μαξιμιλιανός") and Austrian Lloyd paddle steamer "Arciduca Lodovico", which were used for the mail service. The Prince Maximilian was commissioned in the Royal Hellenic Navy and served Piraeus and Cyclades Islands (1837-1840) while the "Arciduca Lodovico" was contracted for international mail. A brief history of the "Prince Maximilian" (formerly corvette "PSARA") is included in "Hellenic Warships 1829-2001" by C. Paizis-Paradellis (2002), pages 119-120 and 153.

Luxembourg: Postage stamp of €0.60, issued for the 15th Games of the Small States of Europe, featuring a QR code (2013). The QR code containes the URL: www.luxembourg2013.lu . Fine postmark "LUXEMBOURG C 3290" dated 11.11.19-22,

Cyprus: Postage stamp of 0.41 euros issued on 10 September, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the ICAO .

Greece: Postage stamp (forever/inland) issued in September 2019 for the centenary of the Hellenic Coast Guard .

GREECE: Postage stamp of 2019 for the centenary of Hellenic Coast Guard (founded 1919). Depicts OPV-050 Arkoi , SWOV (a Vosper Europatrol 250 Mk1) and an overflying AS.365N helicopter.

UK: Postage stamp 1st class (inland) commemorating the Raspberry Pi microcomputer (2019)

Serbia: Postage stamp of 23 dinars issued in 2019 in honour of Serbian-American electrical engineer and inventor Nicola Tesla (1856-1943).

Russia: Postage stamp of 50 rubles commemorating Vega Radio Engineering Corporation (2019)

GREECE: Miniature sheet with a €2.50 stamp commemorating the founding of the Hellenic Space Agency (2018).

A special space cover for the launch of Es'hail-2 communications satellite for Qatar from Pad 39A at Kenedy Space Center. In additional to commercial transponders, this satellite It also carries an Amateur radio payload, AMSAT P-4A. designed by AMSAT-DL, in collaboration with the Qatar Amateur Radio Society. The payload has two transponders, with S-band uplink and X-band downlink. One of the transponders is 250kHz wide and intended for narrowband modes, and the other one is 8MHz wide and intended for DVB-S and other wideband data modes.

GIBRALTAR: Definitive stamps of 20p and 50p cancelled with a sharp postmark "Royal Gibraltar Post Office - FGN - 08 10 2018".

GREECE: postage stamp issued on 2018-09-05 commemorating the 30th anniiversary of EMAK rescue teams of the Hellenic Fire Service .

KOREA: Pair of postage stamp for the 2018 World ARDF Championship, postmarked ANYANG-KOREA, 2018-09-03.

KOREA: Postage stamp for the 2018 World ARDF Championship.