Postage stamps and postal history of Brazil the "slanted numeral" series. Subsequent stamps were in a similar format until the first pictorial stamps were issued in 1866 depicting Emperor Dom Pedro II In 1866 the emperor was represented on all issues until 1884, first with a black beard. For many years stamps from Brazil had Brasil Correio displayed on them. However today the trend is to just have the country name and year, e.g. Brasil 2000. Postage stamps and postal history of Brazil Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world. It was a colony of Portugal from 1500 until 1815. Brazil was the second country
Postage stamps and postal history of Libya "United Kingdom of Libia" or "Libya". In 1969 King Idris I was deposed in a military coup and stamps including the word "Kingdom" were altered in a variety of ways to delete that word. Stamps were first issued marked L.A.R. then LAR and from the 1970s began to be inscribed "Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya" with equivalent wording in Arabic. Postage stamps and postal history of Libya This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Libya. Libya is a country located in North Africa. Bordering the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Libya lies between Egypt to