ANTIOQUIA - 1899: 5 centavos green postage stamp depicting a portrait of Jose Marıa Cordoba Muñoz, also known as the "Hero of Ayacucho". He was a General of the Colombian army during the Independence War of Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia from Spain

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Antioquia, originally a state, now a department of the republic of Colombia. Until the revolution of 1885, the separate states making up the United States of Colombia were sovereign governments in their own right. On August 4, 1886, the National Council of Bogot´a, composed of two delegates from each state, adopted a new constitution which abolished the sovereign rights of states, which then became departments with governors appointed by the President of the Republic. The nine original states represented at the Bogot´a Convention retained some of their previous rights, as management of their own finances, and all issued postage stamps until as late as 1904. This postage stamp, as a physical objects, is part of a private collection owned by the author of the image

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Size: 3400px × 3800px
Location: Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia
Photo credit: © World of Stamp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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