ARGENTINA - 1947: 5 centavos olive-green postage stamp depicting portrait of Cervantes and Characters from Don Quixote. 400th anniversary of the birth of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, playwright and poet. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was an Early Modern Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best known for his novel Don Quixote, a work often cited as both the first modern novel and one of the pinnacles of world literature


Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It shares the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, and is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. Argentina is a federal state subdivided into twenty-three provinces, and one autonomous city, which is the federal capital and largest city of the nation, Buenos Aires. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system. Argentina claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and a part of Antarctica. 100 Centavos = 1 Peso (1858, 1992). 100 Centavos = 1 Austral (1985). This postage stamp, as a physical objects, is part of a private collection owned by the author of the image


Size: 5000px × 3600px
Location: Argentina
Photo credit: © World of Stamp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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