TADJIKISTAN

Tadjikistan is a former republic of the Soviet Union that gained its independence in 1991.

Catalog #			Denom.	Date	Turtle	Description	Comment

			100	1999?	Nine Different Species	Sheet of nine different tortoises and freshwater turtles.	All stamps have a denom. of 100.

			Various		Unidentified Sea Turtle	Se-tenant sheet of nine stamps depicting marine mammals, fish, and a turtle.	Turtle on one stamp only.

			5.00		Unidentified Sea Turtle	Adult swimming to right, underwater.	Single stamp w/ turtle from sheet of nine.

			Various	28 Oct 03	Testudo horsfieldii	Sheet of eight stamps identical to Scott Tadjikistan #228 except that this one is imperf and there are four small figures inscribed in the four corners of the selvedge: a bird, a beetle and two mammals.	Inscribed "Nature of Middle Asia". Date also reported as November 2003.

		a	100	1999?	Carettochelys insculpta	From sheet of nine.

		b	100	1999?	Batagur baska	From sheet of nine.

		c	100	1999?	Trachemys scripta	From sheet of nine.	Genus misspelled "Trachemus" on stamp.

		d	100	1999?	Chersina angulata	From sheet of nine.	Genus spelled "Chersine" on stamp, which is the accepted spelling according to some authors.

		e	100	1999?	Kinixys homeana	From sheet of nine.	Tortoise is misidentified on stamp as "Testudo graeca".

		f	100	1999?	Chitra indica	From sheet of nine.

		g	100	1999?	Sternotherus odoratus	From sheet of nine.

		h	100	1999?	Kinosternon flavescens	From sheet of nine.

		i	100	1999?	Emys orbicularis	From sheet of nine.

SC	228		Various	28 Oct 03	Testudo horsfieldii	Sheet of eight stamps, each depicting a different insect, mammal, bird, or tortoise.	Inscribed "Nature of Middle Asia". Date also reported as November 2003.

SC	228	c	53d	28 Oct 03	Testudo horsfieldi	Single stamp w/ tortoise from Scott Tadjikistan #228.	Date also reported as November 2003.

SC	281		Various	20 mar 06	Cartoon Turtle	Block of four se-tenant stamps w/ two of them tete-beche to the other two. Turtle on one.	Folk Tales block.

SC	281	d	3s	20 Mar 06	Cartoon Turtle	From folk tale "The Gold Fox". Depicts a man, fox, rooster and a small turtle in lower left corner.	From Scott Tajikistan #281.

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