ANTIOQUIA - 1903: 4 centavo yellow-brown postage stamp depicting Coat of Arms. Antioquia, originally a State, now a Department of the Republic of Colombia with Capital in Medellin
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
Size: 4000px × 6000px
Location: Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia
Photo credit: © World of Stamp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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