• Achtung! You'll see the term 'FDC' below - FDC = First Day Cover - an envelope released at the time of a postage stamp, usually having a special cancel to go with it.
    Another term you will encounter below is 'tete-beche' - this is a combination of two connected stamps (one upside down and one right-side up)

    This listing is not complete, but close to it. We'll add the missing pieces in time.

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  • Note: The 2nd Latin Union World Congress, Madrid, May 10, 1954. These were issued in 3 values, 5, 10 and 15

    Number issued: 25,000 perforated, 5,000 imperforated,
    1000 philatelic souvenir cartons

    These stamps depict the royal crest of Romania with map(as it was between the 1st and 2nd World Wars and coins depicting the Roman Emperor Trajan, King Decebal, King Michael the Brave and King Ferdinand I.

  • Note: Issued December 1, 1955 to commemorate the capture of the Romanian Legation in Berne, Switzerland by five anti-communists.

    Number issued: Issued in 1 value and 2 colors, 1 block of the same,
    25,000 perforated, 3,000 blocks imperforated (blue) and 3,000 blocks imperforated (red)

    These stamps depict the royal crest of Romania, and a struggle between a liberated prisoner and a bear representing commmunism/Soviet Union.

  • Note: UNESCO, issued on April 9, 1956

    Number issued: 6,000 perforated, 500 philatelic souvenir cartons

  • Note: Library of Freiburg, issued on May 10, 1956

    Number issued: Three issues of 2,000 with black overprint: Sapte ani de existenta/biblioteca romana din freiburg/ 10 mai 1956

  • Note: International Agricultural Exhibition, issued on May 23, 1956

    Number issued: Issued in 6 values (3 fauna: 5, 10, 15) and (3 flora: 5, 10, 15)
    20,000 flora + 20,000 fauna perforated
    3,000 flora + 3,000 fauna imperforated
    500 FDC perforated (2x250) 300 FDC imperforated (2x150)

    The flora pictures feature Lily of the Valley, Water Lily, and Wild Rose

  • Note: Europa parody issue, issued on January 13, 1957

    Number issued: 3 values - all 15,
    50,000 perforated, 2,000 imperforated
    1,000 philatelic souvenir cartons

    The stamp design is a mockery of another set of stamps issued by several European countries in 1956. As you can see it of a tower crumbling. See below!

  • Note: 40th Anniversary of Battle at Marasesti (1917), issued on August 19, 1957

    Number issued: 3,000 imperforate stamps cut from miniature sheets of the 'Berne' issue with overprint: Marasesti/simbol al vitejiei romanesti 1917-1957
    500 philatelic souvenir cartons

  • Note: 500th Anniversary of King Stefan the Great, issued on September 13, 1957

    Number issued: 5,000 issued with overprint on imperforate pairs of previous issue: Stefan cel mare domn al moldovei/atletal al luihristos si viteaz aparator al frontierei rasaritene a europei 1457 - 1957
    600 FDC
    500 Maxi-cards

  • Note: Centenary of the first Moldavian stamp , issued on May 10, 1958

    Number issued: 15,000 perforated, 3,000 imperforated, 500 FDC perforated, 300 FDC imperforated, 500 philatelic souvenir cartons

  • Below: FDC

  • Note: Map of Europe with menacing communist bear, issued on May 10, 1958

    Number issued: 2 values, 25 and 50
    20,000 perforated, 3,000 imperforated, 1,500 philatelic souvenir cartons, 1,000 FDC (500 perf + 500 imperf)

  • Note: Europa with a communist snake wrapped around 'E' for Europe, issued on November 8, 1958

    Number issued: 3 values, 25, 50, 75
    20,000 perforated, 3,000 imperforated,
    1,000 philatelic souvenir cartons, 700 FDC perforated, 300 FDC imperforated

  • Below: This is an FDC envelope.

  • Note: Suffering Europe, issued on May 10, 1959

    Number issued: 3 values printed in blocks of 9 in 3 colors:
    25, 50, 75, red, green, blue
    15,000 blocks of 9 perforated
    1,500 blocks of 9 imperforated
    50 philatelic souvenir cartons
    1,500 FDC perforated (3 stamps)
    300 FDC imperforated (3 stamps)

  • FDC envelopes:

  • Below: A different cancel from the one above.

  • Below: The very rare so-called 'cartons' (folders or cards) -front

    Below: Inside

    Below: Front

    Below: Inside

  • Note: Suffering Europe - 15 years since the crucifixion of Romania, issued on August 23, 1959

    Number issued: 4,500 blocks of 9 imperforated with overprint in 3 languages: 23 August 1944 - 23 August 1959 15 years since the crucifixion of Romania,
    500 philatelic souvenir cartons (blocks of 9)
    1,500 FDC (strips of 3)

  • Below: FDC

  • Note: At the grave of human rights, issued on September 30, 1959

    Number issued: Value of 75, black and violet
    27,000 perforated, 10,800 imperforated,
    500 FDC perf, 300 FDC imperf

    This was issued to honor the millions of political prisoners in captivity behind the Iron Curtain.

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  • Note: World Refugee Year, issued on November 8, 1959

    Number issued: Value of 75 blue,
    12,000 perforated (2,500 overprinted E XX), 3,000 imperforated (1,000 overprinted E XX)
    700 FDC perf, 300 FDC imperf

  • Close-up

  • Note: Liberty and Union with East Europe, issued on December 1, 1959

    Number issued: Values in 75 green and 75 red,
    12,000 perforated, 3,000 imperorated,
    700 FDC perf, 300 FDC imperf

  • Below: FDC

  • Note: Visit of General Eisenhower to Madrid, issued on December 21, 1959

    Number issued: Previous stamp overprinted in Romanian and English
    2,500 perforated, 1,000 imperforated,
    500 FDC perf, 200 FDC imperf

  • Note: Summit Conference (not held), issued on May 16, 1960

    Number issued: 3 values, 10, 15, 25 blue in strips of 3, in English, Spanish and Romanian
    10,000 strips of 3
    500 FDC

    Note the three doves with olive branches and the communist hawk swooping down!

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  • Note: Europa parody, issued on September 19, 1960

    Number issued: Value 75 blue with attached counterfoil (text field) in Romanian, French or Spanish
    10,000 perforated, 1,000 imperforated
    (unknown number) FDC

  • FDCs

  • Note: Europa parody, issued on September 10, 1961

    Number issued: Value 50 green, 75 red and 1 Leu blue
    15,000 perforated, 3,000 imperforated,
    3,000 blocks, 500 FDC perforated, 300 FDC imperf, 300 FDC blocks

  • Below: FDCs (perf and imperf)

  • Note: American astronaut John Glenn, issued on May 10, 1962

    Number issued: 2 values, both 1 Leu
    5,000 perforated, 3,000 imperforated
    700 FDC perforated, 300 FDC imperforated

  • Note: Centenary of the first Romanian stamps, issued on June 1, 1962

    Number issued: 16,000 perforated, 1,600 imperforated
    500 FDC perf, 300 FDC imperf, 200 FDC tete-beche

  • Below: FDC

  • Note: European athletic games, Belgrad 1962, issued on September 15, 1962

    Number issued: 1 value with overprint in 3 languages on Olympic Games issue of 1961,
    9,000 perforated, 3,000 imperforated
    1,500 FDC perf, 300 FDC imperf

  • Below: FDCs

  • Note: Europa parody, issued on September 17, 1962

    Number issued: Values - 75 brown and green block 1 Leu
    5,000 perforated, 2,000 imperforated, 2,000 blocks
    500 FDC perf, 200 FDC imperf, 200 FDC block

  • Below: FDCs (perf & imperf)

  • Below: Block

  • Note: Struggle against hunger, issued on May 10, 1963

    Number issued: Block of four overprinted in four different languages - Romanian, English, French and Spanish,
    8,000 imperforated, 2,000 blocks
    250 FDC (block + imperf)

  • Note: Centenary of First International Postal Conference, Paris, issued on June 3, 1963

    Number issued: 10,000 imperforated, 2,000 blocks
    500 FDC imperforated, 100 FDC blocks

  • Below: FDCs (perf & imperf)

  • Note: Centenary of the Red Cross, issued on August 15, 1963

    Number issued: Imperf stamp printed in minisheet of 10
    10,000 imperforated, 3,000 blocks
    500 FDC imperforated, 100 FDC blocks

  • Note: The deadly web of communism, issued on September 18, 1963

    Number issued: 8,000 perforated, 2,000 imperforated, 2,000 blocks
    500 FDC perf, 250 FDC imperf, 250 FDC block

  • Below: FDC (imperf)

  • Note: Fight against communism/Ranger 7, issued on July 31, 1963

    Number issued: 4,000 perforated, 1,000 imperforated,
    600 FDC perf, 300 FDC imperf

  • Below: FDC

  • Note: Peace will only be attainable after communism is crushed, issued on September 25, 1965

    Number issued: 8,000 perforated, 2,000 imperforated sheets,
    2,000 blocks, 250 FDC perforated, 250 FDC imperforated, 500 FDC blocks

  • Note: Communism - the deadly predator, issued on November 30, 1965

    Number issued: 10,000 perforated, 2,000 imperforated,
    3.000 blocks