2004 150th Annv. of 1st Portuguese Stamp

Coin and Stamp Set Commemorates the 150th Anniversary of Portugal's First Postage Stamp

Now you can get a 5-Euro coin and commemorative stamp honoring the 150th anniversary of Portugal's first postage stamp.  Your coin and stamp come inside an informational presentation folder with a brief story of Portugal's first stamp.  Since the information is in Portuguese, we took the liberty of putting it through Google Translate for you:

"150 years since the first Portuguese stamp (1853-2003):  On July 1, 1853, the first Portuguese postage stamps went on sale.  These were the stamps of 5 and 25 reis, with the bust, in profile, of the monarch, Dona Maria II (1819-1853), on a stamp opened by Francisco de Borja Freire (1790-1869)."