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Item:204539943410EBS Spain 1960 - 400th Anniversary Discovery of Florida - 1193-1198 - MNH**.
Spain
España 12th October 1960 Lovely set issued to mark the 400th anniversary of the discovery of Florida, in the Americas. The stamps depict:
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (1519–1574), Spanish admiral and explorer, remembered for planning the first regular trans-oceanic convoys and for founding St. Augustine, Florida in 1565;
Hernando de Soto (c.1496–1542), Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States, and made the first documented crossing of the Mississippi River;
Juan Ponce de León (1474-1521), Spanish explorer and conquistador who became the first Governor of Puerto Rico;
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (c.1489–1558), Spanish explorer of the New World.
Catalogue numbers: Michel ES 1193- 1200; catalogue value €10.00 ($16.00 approx.) Stamp Number ES 945- 952 Yvert et Tellier ES 979- 986 Stanley Gibbons ES 1359- 1366 AFA number ES 1295- 1302 Edifil ES 1298-1303
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