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Issue 49. 06/23/99
Phonecards:
-Beautiful new cards from Cyprus Telecom Authority.
(Front) Funerary terracotta statue (400-325 B.C.) PIERIDES FOUNDATION MUSEUM
(Back) Sgraffito cap End of 14th century A.D. PIERIDES FOUNDATION MUSEUM
Value: £3
Issued: 5/99
Code: 0799CY
Mintage: 130.000
Free-field jug of bichrome ware (750-600 B.C.) CYPRUS MUSEUM
Limestone head of a woman From Arsos (3rd cent. B.C.) CYPRUS MUSEUM
Value: £3
Issued: 5/99
Code: 0988CY
Mintage: 130.000
Head of Arsinoe II Philadelphus Double cornucopia Ptolemy VII Evergetes II (139/8 B.C.) MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF CYPRIOT COINAGE
Head of Heracles. Zeus enthroned Alexander the Great (332-323 B.C.) MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF CYPRIOT COINAGE
Value: £5
Issued: 5/99
Code: 0999CY
Mintage: 90.000
Filigree crosses from the beginning of the 20th century CYPRUS JEWELLERS MUSEUM
Rings from the 1920 decade CYPRUS JEWELLERS MUSEUM
Value: £5
Issued: 5/99
Code: 1099CY
Mintage: 90.000
/CYTA/
-New Star Wars: Episode I. phonecards from PPSLTD.
These cards are zero-balance. Mintage 1,000.
/Contributed by Peters Phonecards, dealer/
-Singapore news
Singapore has just realeased a set of 3 cards featuring Star Wars characters Watto Obi-Wan and Jar Jar Binks on 14th June 1999. Set comes with a folder and postcards.
And the honor of the 1st irregular shape cards from Singapore goes to McDonalds. A set of 3 cards is released today. (15th June 1999)
/Contributed by Yew, collector /
-New Andorran phonecards:
PATRON "Ladies of Meritxell"
Mintage: 7.000
Units: 150
ELDER-FLOWERED ORCHID (Dactylorhiza sambucina)
Mintage: 20.000
Units: 50
DIPPER (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)
Mintage:20.000
Units: 100
Marbled White Butterfly (IV)
Mintage: 15.000
Units: 50
DIPPER bird (Cinclus cinclus)
Mintage: 20.000
Units: 50
/Telecom Andorra/
-New French Polynesian phonecard
Illustrations on both sides: drawing by J.L. SAQUET Layout on both sides COM-OPT
Number of units 30
Circulation 60.000 copies
Made by Gemplus
Spear fishing
Deep-sea fishing in a fast-moving boat with a motor requires lots of intuition, judgment and skill. Very often, a fisherman steers his Tahitian-style boat himself, with the aid of a broomstick-like device.
This enables him to take as forward as possible position in his «poti marara» boat in order to throw his spear at a passing fish.
Generally this sportive means of fishing is used to catch such large fish as «mahi mahi» (daurade coryphène.
But sometimes simply drag a line from the boat while passing through fishing banks.
/French Polynesian Telecom/
-The Norwegian collector club has made a catalog of Norwegian cards. It is about 160 pages and the price is 147 NKR.
Contact person: NTK Postbox 146 Lilleaker, N-0216 Oslo Norway email: gert@online.no
The new 1999 Danish phonecard catalog is also out. It has picture and approx. price for more than 1850 Danish, Faroe and Danmont cards. The ISBN is 87-986005-2-4 and ISSN 1389-7568. The price is 140 DKK (about 20 USD). You can order the catalog direct from the printing house: Filatelistisk & Numismatisk Forlag Postbox 527 DK2200 Copenhagen N Phone & Fax: +45-35370207
/Contributed by Martin Moller, collector/
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