Postage stamp dedicated to Alexander Mantashyan cancelled and put into circulation

YEREVAN, March 3. /ARKA/. A new postage stamp dedicated to the 175th birth anniversary of a prominent Armenian businessman and philanthropist Alexander Mantashyan, was cancelled and put into circulation on Friday in Yerevan, the press service of the Armenian national postal operator HayPost said today

It said the postage stamp was cancelled by transport, communications and information technology minister Vahan Martirosyan, the chairman of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Arsen Ghazaryan, the head of the Union of Philatelists Hovik Musayelyan and the acting executive director of HayPost Hayk Ayvazyan.

Vahan Martirosyan noted that March 3 is marked for the first time in Armenia as the Day of the Entrepreneur. The postage stamp looks like an old banknote. It depicts the Armenian Church of St. John the Baptist in Paris and the facade of the building of the Union of Armenian Writers in Tbilisi, Georgia which is today houses a theater.

The face value of the postage stamp is 380 drams. The stamps were printed by the French printing house Cartor. The print-run is 40 thousand copies. The design of the postage stamp was made by Vahan Mkrtchyan. -0-

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17:30 03/03/2017