First Antioquia stamp

Antioquia became a sovereign state in 1858, by recognition as Estado de la Federación in the constitution of the Granadine Confederation. Antioquia issued its first postage stamps on September 1, 1868.. Read more ». A postal exchange agreement with the sovereign state of Bolívar was established a few years later. With the Constitution of 1886, the sovereign state became a department, along with all the other states of Colombia, but they continued with their postal services and stamps until 1906, when the national government took over all the services previously performed by the departments.

Country:	Colombia
Type:	Postage stamps
Series:	Antioquia stamps Cent.; National Stamp Exhibition,7th Ed.
Nominal:	0.30 $
Year:	1968
Size:	25 x 35 mm
Perforation:	12 x 12½
Mintage:	5,000,000