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Slovakia
1939
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Europe | 51 |  |
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| 1939 Slovakia Sc2 SG2 | 1939 Sc26 SG25 |
| Description | Scott# | SG# | Mi# | Y&T# | ||
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| Overprints on Czechoslovakian stamps "Slovenský štát" | ||||||
| 5 halierov deep blue | 2† | 2† | ||||
| other values | 3-25 | 3-24 | ||||
† Both Scott and Gibbons begin with #2. Gibbons notes that the #1 was reassigned to Czechoslovakia as SG393b. Scott does not explain.
Slovakia's first dedicated stamp was Sc26, SG25, also shown above.
During WW2 a "puppet state of Slovakia was set up under German auspices" [1] . At the end of the was it became part of Czechoslovakia again.
| Europe | 51a |
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Independence |
| 1993 Sc150-51 SG145-46 |
Changes of Administration
In 1993 Czechoslovakia again split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Sc151 was issued on 1st January 1993, Sc150 on 2nd January.