Serbian Occupation of Banat: Varieties of Postage Stamps

Serbian troops occupied the territories of Banat and Bačka between 1 May and 20 August 1919. The postal directorate in Temesvár (present day Timișoara) received an order from occupying forces to overprint stamps with appropriate overprint. As the postal tariffs went up at that time, the order was carried out in a way that the stamps were overprinted with new values. Overprinting during the Serbian occupation took place twice so some philatelists refer to them as “the first Timișoara” and “the second Timișoara” issues.

TYPES OF OVERPRINTS
10 filler on 2 filler (both blue and black overprints)
I, II Serbia Hungary Romania 1919 postage stamp overprint type 1
Type I		 Serbia Hungary Romania 1919 postage stamp overprint type 2
Type II		 Types of overprints:

  • Type I: regular zero,
  • Type II: wide zero.

 

POSSIBLE CONSTANT VARIETIES (not mentioned in literature)
10 filler on 2 filler
1 The first letter l in fillér indented. Serbia Temisvar postage stamp issue overprint error

 

 

References

Bibliography

  1. Katalog poštanskih maraka jugoslovenskih zemalja (1991), Jugomarka (Belgrade). YU ISSN 0351-4447
  2. Priručnik Maraka Jugoslavenskih Zemalja (1950), Tome IX, Filatelistički Savez Hrvatske (Zagreb).