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Saturday, November 30, 2019

Don't cry for Argentina - 03 g National Heroes - Series III : half centavo plate III A/B/C

National Heroes, serie III "República" - plate III A/B/C

Plate I has 10 variations, plate II (A and B) leads to 20 variations, and now plate III exists of  3 parts, but luckily - only - 10 more variations.

plate III (A/B/C)
Plate(s) 3 were used to print 5 million half centavo stamps, 56.4% of all.

There are 10 variations that can be found :

var 3.01 : in the right upper corner, a white dot is found where the horizontal and vertical lines meet, the 1 of the right 1/2 is deformed

var 3.02 : under the RG of Argentinos, the inner oval and the middle oval touch eachoter (or are connected because of a dot) and the inner oval is incomplete just before the RG

var 3.03 : in the first 'armpit' of the T of Argentinos there is a white dot

var 3.04 : here there is a white dot under the R of Argentinos

var 3.05 : there are two lines, one leaving from the ornament above the G of Argentinos, downwards, a second one from the G of Argentinos towards the line between the right 1/2

var 3.06 : the inner oval line above CEN of centavos is irregular and formed by dots

var 3.07 : in the C of centavos, a line can be found in the middle of the C, making it look like an E

var 3.08 : in the C of centavos, it looks like someone tried to cut of a slice of the base line of the C

var 3.09 : in the first R of Correos, a dot is found towards the upper right part of the leg of the R

var 3.10 : a "-mark in the leg of the T of Argentinos

The stamps from plate 3 are devided over 3 sub plates :
plates 3A, 3B and 3C

to be continued ...

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