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Syracuse

Syracuse

Series is a series of stamps issued from the fifties to the seventies.

The famous series called "Italy Turrita" or "Syracuse is one of the longest in the history of philatelic: thirty years, from June 6, 1953, official birthday, at the beginning of the eighties.

series Turrita Italy was a great success, both among clients and between the operators of Post. It was indeed appreciated by the public as conveniently small denominations and easy recognition, all of which have helped to make it last so long. In most of them had a special feature: it was monochromatic, each value was that its color from purple to pink to red to brown, a feature that allowed immediate recognition from the point of view both by tariff customers of postal operators.

When the series was issued immediately made headlines for its reduced size (17 mm base to 21 mm in height). It was indeed the first time you went back to a smaller size than the stamps of the previous periods, those of the years immediately following the proclamation of the Republic, who, having to represent the highlights and prominent figures in Italian history, needed to be larger . The depiction of a woman's head with turreted crown was taken from an ancient coin of Syracuse dell'epoca romana ad opera del disegnatore Vittorio Grassi. Questo spiega perché la serie è anche detta Siracusana. La rappresentazione ben presto divenne il simbolo dell'Italia repubblicana.
I francobolli di questa serie sotto il valore impresso sul francobollo al di sotto delle cento lire sono con sfondo colorato, mentre quelli al di sopra delle cento lire sono su sfondo bianco e la testa di donna coi bordi colorati.
La serie, nei suoi trent'anni di vita, ha subìto modifiche della filigrana e un ampliamento progressivo della composizione dei valori tariffari. La prima emissione, quella che viene considerata come la “serie base”, era composta da nove valori su filigrana ruota alata. Tra il 1955 e il 1960 la serie fu ampliata e values \u200b\u200braised to 17 and was reprinted with filigree belt of stars. Then, in '68, was issued a third series, consisting of 23 values, and this time as well as printed on watermarked paper carpet of stars also on fluorescent paper. In that year it was introduced in Italy a new system of mail sorting. In some centers, post office automation machines, through the optical reading of the fluorescence in the paper, ensure that the correspondence was freed and could continue his race. The third series also showed differences in size also. Was decreased, in practice, the print format to allow easy reading of the fluorescence by the straightening of marking machines sorting centers.
In the early '80s, even after some alterations, the historical series was put out of circulation and replaced by the castles of Italy.

(FDC recommended traveled to USA franked with the Syracuse series "grand" 1954 Watermark winged wheel)