FRANCE - 1938: An 25 centimes blue-green postage stamp depicting Mercury (Mercurius), a major god in Roman religion and mythology, being one of the 12 Dii Consentes within the ancient Roman pantheon. He is the god of financial gain, commerce, eloquence, messages, communication (including divination), travelers, boundaries, luck, trickery, and thieves, He also serves as the guide of souls to the underworld. In Roman mythology, he was considered to be either the son of Maia, one of the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas, and Jupiter, or of Caelus and Dies

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France. Postage stamps All this postage stamps, as a physical objects, is part of a private collection owned by the author of the image

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Size: 2800px × 3300px
Location: Paris, France
Photo credit: © World of Stamp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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