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 Alain Martineau
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| General Description : | Serie: 246, Type: P, Stamps in serie: 4 The stamps are issued in sheets 20 stamps each. Croatian Post and Telecommunications sells the First Day Cover FDC and the First Day Sheet. Croatia first participeted at the Olympic Games, under the Croatian flag, at the Winter Olympic Games in Albertville on February 2, 1992. Croatian tennis players Goran Ivanišević and Goran Prpić won the bronze medal and the day after, in the men’s semi-finals, Goran Ivanišević won another bronze medal. At the 25th Olympics in Barcelona, Croatian basketball team won silver medals after playing at an equal level against the best world players - the "Dream team". Croatian waterpolo players had to surrender to the Spanish team on the 26th Olympics in Atlanta and they won the silver medal. As a consequence of a long tradition of handball in Croatia, Croatian handball team won the gold medal at the Olympics in Atlanta. This makes Croatia the strongest handball power, if we take into consideration. the ratio of inhabitants. |
| Face value | 2.20 Kuna |
| Catalog code (Michel) | HR 427 |
| Catalog code | Stamp Number HR 340 Yvert et Tellier HR 401 Stanley Gibbons HR 505 AFA number HR 507 Croatian post Inc. HR 249 |
| Series | Croatian Olympic Medals |
| Stamp colour | multicolor |
| Stamp use | Commemorative stamp |
| Print run | 350,000 |
| Issue date | 10/09/1997 |
| Designer | Zlatko Keser |
| Paper type | white 102g, gummed |
| Print technique | Multicoloured Offsetprint |
| Printed by | AKD - Hrvatski tiskarski zavod, Zagreb, Savska cesta 31 |
| Perforation | 14, comb |
| Height | 34.08 mm |
| Width | 29.82 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
