Sweden

Date2011, 17 XI
Value12 KR
Catalog no.Mi 2847 - 2848, BL38   Sc 2672a - 2672b, 2672   SG 2828 - 2829, MS2756   Y&T 2828 - 2829
TopicCurie, Marie - Naszarkowski, Piotr
OccasionCentennial of the Nobel Prize in chemistry for Maria Skłodowska-Curie
DescriptionJoint issue with Poland. Design: Marzanna Dąbrowska (Poland), engraving: Piotr Naszarkowski (Swedish Post). Sheet of two stamps.On the other stamp a medal with the portrait of Alfred Nobel. The stamp shows Maria Skłodowska-Curie in a laboratory carrying a bottle, containing radium. A transparant fluorescent coloring has been used, to make the radium on stamp glow under UV light.