Despite the extreme weather, nearly 10,000 visitors did not miss the 27th edition of the largest collectors’ meeting in Central and Eastern Europe. From 6 to 7 September, over 230 exhibitors from all over the world offered them stamps, coins, banknotes, postcards and other collecting material at the PVA Expo Prague exhibition centre.
The popular “emoji” are an interesting revival of the Czech Post’s issue plan. A series of five stamps shows the journey of a letter from the writer through the post office to its delivery to the addressee.
Every year, the Association of Public European Postal Operators PostEurop announces a common stamp theme for its members. This year, “aquatic fauna and flora” was chosen as the theme for the stamp under the common EUROPA designation. Czech Post entrusted the motif to our leading specialists in natural themes, Jaromír and Libuše Knotek.
MIF 2024, one of Europe’s largest trade fairs for banknotes and other paper valuables, will take place from 3 to 5 May in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Along with more than 230 exhibitors, the Sberatel Fair will also be present at the event with its beer tasting booth.
The largest spring meeting of collectors hosted over 80 exhibitors and attracted over 3,000 visitors to the Olympik Hotel in Prague. The next Sberatel fair will take place on 6 -7 September at the PVA Expo in Prague.
The Netherlands’ largest record fair is back for its 58th edition, offering a treasure trove of vinyl, CDs, and music memorabilia for collectors and enthusiasts alike.
The biggest spring meeting of collectors will take place from 22 to 23 March at the Olympik Hotel****. Over eighty dealers from all over the world will be heading to the Czech Republic. They will be offering stamps, coins, banknotes, medals, postcards and other collecting material to more than three thousand visitors.
The Czech National Bank is issuing a commemorative silver coin to mark the 300th anniversary of the death of architect Jan Blazej Santini-Aichel. The sheet dedicated to the famous architect, whose seminal work is firmly linked to the Czech lands, was previously issued by the Czech Post.
Ladislav Sutnar was a designer, typographer and avant-garde artist who is still one of the leading European artists in the field of applied graphics.
The Czech Post is paying tribute to a prominent figure of the Czech avant-garde and the most expensive Czech woman painter on postage stamps.
The most expensive item auctioned in the online auction of banknotes circulating in Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia from 1762 to the present day was the so-called Vienna banknote of 500 guilders from 1806. It sold for 55 200 Eur.
The MTX Supertatra car was designed in the early 1990s by the automotive designer Václav Král and all the pieces produced are meeting in one place for the first time ever. An exhibition of drawings by the long-time director of the Tatra Museum will take visitors through the history of the Tatra car factory.