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A chronological listing of world postage stamps depicting coins.
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1900 March 1
Crete
1-lepta postage stamp depicts a coin of Hermes;
50-lepta postage stamp depicts a coin of Hermes (with overprint);
1-drachma postage stamp depicts a coin of Talos (with overprint).
Catalog numbers: Scott 50,60,61
Approximate value: US$8.55 (Scott 2014).
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1901 (month unknown)
Crete
50-lepta stamp depicts a coin of Hermes (lilac color);
50-lepta stamp depicts a coin of Hermes (blue color);
1-drachma stamp depicts a coin of Talos.
Catalog numbers: Scott 67-69
Approximate value: US$65.50 (Scott 2014).
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1906 (month unknown)
Liberia
25-cent postage stamp depicts the head of Liberty on a coin.
Catalog numbers: Scott 107
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1909 (month unknown)
Crete
1-lepta postage stamp depicts a coin of Hermes;
20-lepta postage stamp depicts a Cydonia coin of Kydon and dog;
50-lepta postage stamp depicts a Knossos coin of Adriadne.
Catalog numbers: Scott 99,104,106
Approximate value: US$10 (Scott 2014).
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1928 February 1
Cyprus
50th year of Cyprus as a British Colony.
3/4-piaster postage stamp depicts a silver coin of Amathus.
Catalog numbers: Michel 108; Scott 114; Stanley Gibbons 123
Approximate value: US$1.60 (Scott 2014).
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1937 November 1
Greece
40-lepta postage stamp depicts a coin of the Amphictyonic League.
Catalog numbers: Scott 399
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1944 (month unknown)
China (Republic)
$100 stamp depicts symbolic coin dropped into savings bank.
Catalog numbers: Scott 576
Approximate value: US$0.35 (Scott 2014).
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1945 (month unknown)
China (Republic)
Promotion of saving money.
$40, $50, and $200 stamps depict symbolic coin dropped into savings bank.
Catalog numbers: Scott 574-75,577
Approximate value: US$1.60 (Scott 2014).
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1946 April 12
Bulgaria
50th anniversary of Bulgarian Postal Savings.
20-lev stamp depicts tiny symbolic coin being deposited in a savings bank.
Catalog numbers: Scott 502; Stanley Gibbons 590
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1951 February 1
Israel
5-, 15-, 30-, and 40-prutot overprinted official use postage stamps depict various ancient Judean coins.
Catalog numbers: Scott O1-O4
Approximate value: US$0.80 (Scott 2010).
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1951 December 15
China (People's Republic)
100th anniversary of Taiping Peasant Rebellion.
$800 and $1000 stamps depict coin of Taiping.
Catalog numbers: Michel 131-32; Scott 126-27; Stanley Gibbons I528-29
Approximate value: US$14 (Scott 2014).
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1953 November 3
Panama
50th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Panama.
1-balboa postage stamp depicts obverse and reverse of a coin.
Catalog numbers: Scott 394; Stanley Gibbons 550
Approximate value: US$1.25 (Scott 2010).
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1953 November 9
Bermuda
4 1/2 pence, 1-, 5-, and 10-shilling postage stamps depict early hog coins of Sommer Islands.
Catalog numbers: Scott 151,155,160-61; Stanley Gibbons 142,144,148-49
Approximate value: US$8.00 (Scott 2010).
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