Hradčany 100 Haléřü
23,620,000 100h Hradčany stamps were printed, and of those, some 23,340,000 released. Printing began of January 10, 1919 and the stamps were first made available to the public on January14, 1919.
Jaroslav Lešetický reports that identifying marks were added to the 100h plates during the course of their being printed. This was done by driving a nail into each plate's supporting wooden platform just right of the top of the 100th stamp. Thus, early printing do not have this mark, later printings do.
100 haléřů, of course, represents 1 korun (Czechoslovak crown).
Printing Matrices
The two 100h plates were used often and with a number of other denominations. As usual, for the first printing, January 10 to January 11, 1919, the plates were in a tête-bêche layout. The second printing, from January 15 until January 20, 1919, set up the more normal unidirectional layout. This same layout would be used again in the sixth printing on May 27, 1919.
The third printing paired the 100h plates with the 40h plates on January 21, 1919, and on January 27, 1919, the 40h plates were replaced by the two 400h plates for the fourth printing. The fifth printing paired the 80h plates with the 100h plates on May 2, 1919. The sixth printing was mentioned above as a replication of the second printing. The date of the seventh and final printing, where the plates were paired with two of the Abstract Design's 5h plates, is undocumented.
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| First Printing | Second Printing |
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| Third Printing | Fourth Printing |
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| Fifth Printing | Sixth printing |
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