NICARAGUA


Catalog # Denom.      Date      Turtle      Description      Comment

C$12.00 2002 Unidentified Chelonian S/S w/ one stamp/. Sheet shows native people watching European ships appear on horizon. Small turtle on stamp. Inscribed 1502/2002. Issued for 500th Anniv. of Colombus' arrival.

SC 2278 C$6.00 01 Jun 99 Archelon Sheet of six stamps w/ Archelon in right margin. One stamp on this sheet (#2278f) depicts a Placochelys, which looks superficially like a turtle but is not related to turtles.

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