City Post Stamp in St.Petersburg and Moscow

Issued to pay local postage in Saint-Petersburg and Moscow. It is known to have been used in other cities.

Postage stamp was withdrawn from circulation in August 1865, and up to 1884 it was.. Read more » possible to pay for long-distance domestic and overseas shipment of mail.

In 1909, 111900 unsold copies of this postage stamp had been destroyed with the transfer to the Post and Telegraph Museum deposited 7600 stamps, which in 1911 were sold to the Directorate General of Posts and Telegraphs dealer stamps in Berlin F Kozak.

Country:	Russian Empire
Type:	Postage stamps
Series:	City Post Stamp in St.Petersburg and Moscow
Nominal:	5 k
Year:	1863
Material:	White coated - Мелованная
Size:	18.1 x 24.3 mm
Perforation:	frame 12¼ x 12½
Mintage:	500,000