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2pi denom (#773)

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Desc: 2pi

Currency: Ottoman lira (40par=40pa=1pia=1pi)

Numerical sorting value: 4800


Equivalent denoms: 2pia (21), 80pa (8)

Users of this denom: Austrian offices in the Turkish Empire (10 stamps, 1888-1908), Cilicia (6 stamps, 1919-1920), Eastern Rumelia (2 stamps, 1880), French offices in Crete (1 stamp, 1903), French offices in the Turkish Empire (2 stamps, 1890-1902), German offices in the Turkish Empire (3 stamps, 1900-1905), British offices in the Turkish Empire (1 stamp, 1906), Italian offices in the Turkish Empire (3 stamps, 1908-1921), Constantinople (1 stamp, 1909), Durazzo (1 stamp, 1909), Janina (1 stamp, 1909), Jerusalem (1 stamp, 1909), Salonika (1 stamp, 1909), Scutari (1 stamp, 1909), Smyrna (1 stamp, 1909), Valona (1 stamp, 1909), Russian offices in the Levant (3 stamps, 1900-1913), Thrace (3 stamps, 1913), Turkey (76 stamps, 1863-1923), Turkey in Asia (6 stamps, 1921-1922)

Used by 124 stamps: (See all uses as list)

Turkey 1/13/1863 2pi blk pc=grnbl issue=1863 d=tughra (1863) imperf paper=thin
Turkey postage due 1/13/1865 2pi dkredbrn issue=1865 due perf=12.5
Turkey 1/13/1865 2pi bl issue=1865 dt=crescent & star d=crescent & star (1865) perf=12.5
Turkey 1/13/1867 2pi bl issue=1867 dt=crescent & star d=crescent & star (1867) perf=12.5
Turkey 1869 2pi orgred issue=1869 dt=crescent & star d=crescent & star (1869)
Turkey postage due 1/1/1869 2pi yelbrn&dkbrn issue=1869 due perf=13.25
Turkey postage due 1/1/1869 2pi yelbrn&redbrn issue=1869 due perf=13.25
Turkey 1870 2pi red issue=1870 dt=crescent & star d=crescent & star (1869) perf=5-11
Turkey 1873 2pi ver issue=1873 dt=crescent & star d=crescent & star (1869)
Turkey 1/1876 2pi redbrn issue=1876 Jan dt=crescent & star d=crescent & star (1876) perf=13.25
Turkey 9/15/1876 2pi blk&redbrn d=crescent (1876) perf=13.25
Eastern Rumelia 1880 2pi blk&buff issue=1880 ovpt=R.O oc=blk on=issuer=Turkey-2pi-blk&buff-unissued
Eastern Rumelia 1880 2pi blk&redbrn issue=1880 d=crescent (1876) ovpt=R.O oc=blk on=issuer=Turkey-9/15/1876-2pi perf=13.25
Turkey 1881 2pi sal d=crescent & star (1876) perf=13.25
Turkey 1884 2pi och&paleoch issue=1884 d=crescent (1876)
Turkey 3/1886 2pi org<bl d=crescent (1876)
Austrian offices in the Turkish Empire 1888 2pi gray d=arms of Austria (1883) ovpt=value oc=blk on=issuer=Austria-1883-20kr-gray wmk=MARKEN perf=9-12.5
Turkey 3/13/1888 2pi lil&bl d=crescent (1876)
Turkey postage due 3/13/1888 2pi blk issue=1888 due perf=13.25
Austrian offices in the Turkish Empire 1890 2pi olgrn d=Franz Josef (1890) ovpt=value oc=blk on=issuer=Austria-1890-20kr perf=9-12.5
French offices in the Turkish Empire 1890 2pi rose pc=palerose issue=1885 d=Peace & Commerce var=N under U oc=blk on=issuer=France-1890-50c-rose perf=14x13.5
Turkey 6/5/1890 2pi yel&gray d=crescent (1876)
Austrian offices in the Turkish Empire 1891 2pi yelgrn d=Franz Josef (1891) ovpt=value oc=blk on=issuer=Austria-1891-20kr perf=9-12.5
Turkey 3/1892 2pi brnorg issue=1892 d=arms of sultan & tughra perf=13.5
Turkey postage due 3/10/1892 2pi grayblk&blk issue=1892 due perf=13.25
Turkey newspaper 1893 2pi brnorg issue=newspaper 1893 d=arms of sultan & tughra ovpt=yyy oc=blk on=1892-2pi perf=13.5
Turkey military 4/21/1898 2pi org d=tughra & bridge perf=13.5
Russian offices in the Levant 1900 2pi ovpt=value oc=blk on=20k-unissued
Austrian offices in the Turkish Empire 1900 2pi slbl d=Franz Josef (1899 b) ovpt=value oc=blk on=issuer=Austria-1899-50h perf=9-12.5
German offices in the Turkish Empire 10/1/1900 2pi lake&blk d=Germania (Reichspost) oc=blk on=issuer=Germany-1900-40pf perf=14x14.25
Turkey postage due 1901 2pi blk&rose issue=1901 due b perf=13.25
Austrian offices in the Turkish Empire 1901 2pi slbl d=Franz Josef (1899 b) ovpt=value oc=blk on=issuer=Austria-1899-50h perf=9-12.5
Turkey 1901 2pi org issue=1901b d=tughra (1901 b) perf=13.25
Turkey 1901 2pi graybl issue=1901a d=tughra (1901 a) perf=13.25
French offices in the Turkish Empire 1902 2pi bisbrn&lav issue=1902b oc=blk on=issue=1902a-50c-bisbrn&lav-unissued
Austrian offices in the Turkish Empire postage due 1902 2pi dlgrn ovpt=value oc=blk on=issuer=Austria-1899-40h-dlgrn-unissued
French offices in Crete 1903 2pi
Austrian offices in the Turkish Empire 1903 2pi graybl&blk d=Franz Josef (1903) var=varnish bars
Turkey 1905 2pi sl d=tughra (1905) perf=13.25
German offices in the Turkish Empire 10/1/1905 2pi lake&blk d=Germania (Deutsches Reich) ovpt=value(fraktur) oc=blk on=issuer=Germany-1902-40pf perf=14x14.25
German offices in the Turkish Empire 11/1905 2pi lake&blk d=Germania (Deutsches Reich) ovpt=value(fraktur) oc=blk on=issuer=Germany-1905-40pf wmk=lozenges
British offices in the Turkish Empire 1906 2pi lil&ultra d=King Edward VII (1902 5d) ovpt=2 PIASTRES oc=blk on=issuer=Great Britain-1902-5d wmk=imperial crown perf=14
Turkey 1906 2pi sl issue=1906 discount d=tughra (1905) ovpt=B oc=blk on=1905-2pi-tughra (1905) perf=13.25
Austrian offices in the Turkish Empire 1906 2pi graybl&blk d=Franz Josef (1903)
Turkey 1908 2pi blblk issue=1908 discount d=tughra (1908) ovpt=B oc=blk on=2pi-tughra (1908)
Turkey 1908 2pi blblk d=tughra (1908)
Austrian offices in the Turkish Empire postage due 1908 2pi
Austrian offices in the Turkish Empire 1908 2pi lake issue=1908 d=Franz Josef in royal robes
Italian offices in the Turkish Empire 1908 2pi vio issue=Constantinople 2nd printing d=Victor Emmanuel III (facing left) ovpt=value oc=blk on=issuer=Italy-1908-50c-vio wmk=crown (Italy) perf=14
Italian offices in the Turkish Empire 1908 2pi vio issue=Constantinople 1st printing d=Victor Emmanuel III (facing left) ovpt=value oc=blk on=issuer=Italy-1908-50c-vio wmk=crown (Italy) perf=14
(plus 74 more) (See all uses as list)