US 1968 Explorer Leif Erikson 6c. Scott. 1359


US 1968 Explorer Leif Erikson 6c. Scott. 1359


Series: Leif Erikson Issue

Stamp details: Leif Erikson by A. Stirling Calder

Issued date: 09-10-1968 (dd/mm/yyyy)
Face value: 6c.

Emission: Commemorative
Watermark: No Watermark

Catalogue No:-
Scott (USA): 1359
Stanley Gibbons (UK): 1344
Michel (Germany): 967
Yvert et Tellier (France): 862

Dimensions (height x width):
40mm x 25.5mm

Printer: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Print Method: Giori Press

Stamp Colors: Light gray, brown and black brown
Perforation: Perf 11 x 11

Themes: Statue, Explorer

Total print: 128,710,000 (estimate)

Description:- Leif Erikson, Leiv Eiriksson, or Leif Ericson, also known as Leif the Lucky (c.?970 – c.?1019 to 1025), was a Norse explorer who is thought to have been the first European to have set foot on continental North America, approximately half a millennium before Christopher Columbus. According to the sagas of Icelanders, he established a Norse settlement at Vinland, which is usually interpreted as being coastal North America. There is ongoing speculation that the settlement made by Leif and his crew corresponds to the remains of a Norse settlement found in Newfoundland, Canada, called L'Anse aux Meadows, which was occupied 1,000 years ago (carbon dating estimates 990–1050 CE).
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Erikson