Curaçao
Curaçao ( ; ; pap, Kòrsou, ), officially the Country of Curaçao ( nl, Land Curaçao; pap, Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island country in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of the Venezuela coast ...
, a country within the
Kingdom of the Netherlands started issuing postal stamps after the
dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles on 10 October 2010. The island forms one of the five postage regions in the Kingdom. The first stamp issued shows the map of the island. The value of the current stamp is denominated in
Netherlands Antillean guilder
The Netherlands Antillean guilder ( nl, gulden) is the currency of Curaçao and Sint Maarten, which until 2010 formed the Netherlands Antilles along with Bonaire, Saba, and Sint Eustatius. It is subdivided into 100 ''cents'' (Dutch plural form: ...
s.
On 13 August 2013 Curaçao had a
joint issue A joint issue is the release of postage stamp, stamps or postal stationery by two or more countries to commemorate the same topic, event or person. Joint issues typically have the same first day of issue and their design is often similar or identica ...
with
Malta with the theme "Harbours". Curaçao's miniature sheet depicted
Willemstad Harbour while Malta's miniature sheet depicted the
Grand Harbour.
See also
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Postage stamps and postal history of the Netherlands Antilles
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of the postal areas Netherlands Antilles as well as its predecessor Curaçao. The area consisted of the islands Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius (now part of the Netherlands as postal a ...
References
External links
Cpost International
Communications in Curaçao
History of Curaçao
Philately of the Netherlands
Postal system of the Netherlands
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