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the exhibition, and one of these, illustrated above, features (curiously enough) the allied hobby of coin collecting. It depicts both sides of a silver taler coin minted in Moravia in 1620. The coin shows a pyramid and grapevine on the obverse, and a spread eagle—emblem of the Moravian margraves—on the reverse. Moravia was one of the ancient regions that make up modern Czechoslovakia. But the only time that Moravia as such appeared in the stamp album was during the last war. The Germans occupying Czechoslovakia set up a puppet government for Bohemia and Moravia which had its own stamps from 1939 to 1945. The 1966 exhibition was arranged as a curtain raiser to a still larger event planned for 1968 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the first Czech stamps.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31239, 10 December 1966, Page 13
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