Estado Português da India
Portuguese India – New Currency Overprints (1959)
1959
Vasco De Gama arrives in India.
Portuguese India changed its currency to conform to the decimal system in January 1959. The new currency was Escudos, where 100 centavos = 1 Escudos, instead of the older denomination of 12 reis = 1 Tanga. Older postage stamps and postage due stamps were overprinted with the new currency (legislative order no. 1863) and were put into circulation from 1st January, 1959.
Coat of Arms
Stamps of 1958
Surcharged with new values and older values obliterated with three bars
1959
Sg:PT-IN 660
Vasco da Gama
5 c. Multicolour. Comb 13½
Sg:PT-IN 662
Lopo Soares de Albergaria
15 c. Multicolour. Comb13½
Sg:PT-IN 663
20 c. Multicolour. Comb13½
Sg:PT-IN 664
30 c. Multicolour. Comb13½
Sg:PT-IN 672
1 $. Multicolour. Comb13½
Sg:PT-IN 673
1.50 $. Multicolour. Comb13½
Sg:PT-IN 676
4 $. Multicolour. Comb13½
Sg:PT-IN 677
4.50 $. Multicolour. Comb13½
Maps of Damao and Nagar Haveli
Stamps of 1957
Surcharged with new values and older values obliterated with three bars
1959
Sg:PT-IN 661
10 c. Multicolour. Comb 11½ x 12
Sg:PT-IN 668
50 c. Multicolour. Comb 11½ x 12
Sg:PT-IN 674
2 $. Multicolour. Comb 11½ x 12
Sg:PT-IN 675
2.50 $. Multicolour. Comb 11½ x 12
Sg:PT-IN 678
5 $. Multicolour. Comb 11½ x 12
Sg:PT-IN 679
10 $. Multicolour. Comb 11½ x 12
Sg:PT-IN 680
30 $. Multicolour. Comb 11½ x 12
Maps of Ancient Forts
Stamps of 1956
Surcharged with new values and older values obliterated with three bars
1959
Sg:PT-IN 665
Baraim
40 c. Multicolour. Comb 13
Sg:PT-IN 666
Mombaim
40 c. Multicolour. Comb 13
Sg:PT-IN 667
Damao
40 c. Multicolour. Comb 13
Viceroys
Stamps of 1956
Surcharged with new values and older values obliterated with two bars
1959
Sg:PT-IN 669
Nuno da Cunha
80 c. Multicolour. Comb 11½ x 12
Sg:PT-IN 670
80 c. Multicolour. Comb 11½ x 12
Sg:PT-IN 671
80 c. Multicolour. Comb 11½ x 12
Other Overprints
Stamps of 1948-58
Surcharged with new values and older values obliterated
1959
Sg:PT-IN 681
40 c. Lilac | Purple. Comb 11½
Sg:PT-IN 682
40 c. Multicolour. Comb 14½
Sg:PT-IN 684
80 c. Violet | Yellow live. Comb 13½
Sg:PT-IN 685
80 c. Blue | Light blue. Perf 11½
Sg:PT-IN 683
40 c. Blue | Light blue. Comb 13½
Sg:PT-IN 686
80 c. Multicolour. Comb 13½
Sg:PT-IN 687
80 $. Multicolour. Comb 14½
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