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20pa denom (#6940) (Turkey usage only)

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  • Colnect-718-815-Tughra-of-Sultan-Abdul-Aziz.jpg
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  • Colnect-417-386-Overprint-on-Crescent-and-star.jpg
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  • Colnect-417-408-Overprint-on-Crescent-and-star.jpg
  • Colnect-417-412-Empire-Crescent.jpg
  • Empire_61A.jpg
  • ARC-turkey03.jpg-crop-125x139at217-65.jpg
  • Colnect-417-422-Empire-Crescent.jpg
  • Colnect-417-437-Empire-Crescent.jpg
  • Colnect-4565-671-Empire-Crescent.jpg
  • Colnect-1438-493-Imperial-Coat-of-Arms.jpg
  • Colnect-4608-069-Imperial-Coat-of-Arms.jpg
  • Turkey_98a.jpg
  • Colnect-4582-825-Tughra-of-Abdul-Hamid-II-and-Bridge-at-Larissa.jpg
  • Colnect-1437-341-Internal-postage-due---small-Tughra-of-Abdul-Hamid-II.jpg
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  • Timbre_Ottoman_1901_20paras_bright.jpg
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  • Colnect-1437-193-External-post-stamp---Tughra-of-Abdul-Hamid-II.jpg
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  • Colnect-417-476-Internal-post-stamp---Tughra-of-Abdul-Hamid-II.jpg
  • Colnect-417-481-New-Constitution---Tughra-of-Abdul-Hamid-II.jpg
  • Colnect-417-486-Internal-post-stamp---Tughra-of-Mehmed-V.jpg
  • Colnect-417-491-External-post-stamp---Tughra-of-Mehmed-V.jpg
  • Colnect-1432-450-Postage-Due-stamps-1913.jpg
  • Colnect-417-498-Internal-post-stamps-1913.jpg
  • Colnect-612-120-External-post-stamps-1913.jpg
  • Colnect-691-983-Mosque-of-Selim-Adrianople-Edirne.jpg
  • Colnect-417-512-Rumeli-Hisar-Castles-of-Europe.jpg
  • Colnect-5890-912-Star-overprinted-on-Castle-of-Europe-on-Bosporus.jpg
  • Colnect-6237-135-Overprint-on-Castle-of-Europe-on-Bosporus.jpg
  • Colnect-417-551-overprint-on-Exterior-post-stamps-1913.jpg
  • Colnect-417-530-overprint-on-Interior-post-stamps-1901.jpg
  • Colnect-1414-415-overprint-on-stamps-1905.jpg
  • Colnect-1414-434-overprint-on-stamps-1909.jpg
  • Colnect-5053-409-overprint-on-Exterior-post-stamps-1909.jpg
  • Turkey_408.jpg
  • Colnect-1419-371-overprint-on-Internal-post-stamps-1901.jpg
  • Colnect-1422-211-overprint-on-Adrianople-Stamps-of-1913.jpg
  • Colnect-1420-133-overprint-on-Internal-post-stamps-1913.jpg
  • Colnect-1421-699-overprint-on-Internal-post-stamps-1909.jpg
  • Colnect-1422-312-overprint-on-Internal-post-stamps-1905.jpg
  • Colnect-1419-318-overprint-on-post-stamps-of-1909.jpg
  • Colnect-417-575-Post-Office-in-Istanbul.jpg
  • Colnect-1419-322-overprint-on-post-stamps-of-1905.jpg
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  • Colnect-417-626-Overprint-on-Fountain-in-Desert-near-Sinai.jpg
  • Colnect-417-635-Overprint-on-Fountain-in-Desert-near-Sinai.jpg
  • Colnect-1431-122-Overprint-on-Monument-to-Martyrs-of-Liberty.jpg
  • Colnect-597-564-Mosque-of-Selim.jpg
Desc: 20pa

Currency: Ottoman lira (40par=40pa=1pia=1pi)

Numerical sorting value: 1200


Equivalent denoms: 1/2pi (1), 1/2pia (1)

Users of this denom: Austrian offices in the Turkish Empire (9 stamps, 1888-1913), Cilicia (21 stamps, 1919-1920), Crete (3 stamps, 1898-1899), Eastern Rumelia (8 stamps, 1880-1885), German offices in the Turkish Empire (6 stamps, 1884-1905), Mytilene (3 stamps, 1912), Italian offices in the Turkish Empire (4 stamps, 1908-1922), Italy/Albania (1 stamp, 1907), Constantinople (2 stamps, 1909-1922), Durazzo (1 stamp, 1909), Janina (1 stamp, 1909), Jerusalem (1 stamp, 1909), Salonika (1 stamp, 1909), Scutari (1 stamp, 1909), Smyrna (2 stamps, 1909-1922), Valona (1 stamp, 1909), Romania (3 stamps, 1865-1866), Romanian offices in the Turkish Empire (2 stamps, 1896), Russian offices in the Levant (14 stamps, 1900-1913), Thrace (4 stamps, 1913), Turkey (88 stamps, 1863-1923), Turkey in Asia (5 stamps, 1921-1922) Show with all usages

Used by 88 stamps of Turkey: (See all uses as list)

postage due 1/1/1863 20pa redbrn issue=1863 due imperf
postage due 1/1/1863 20pa dkbrn issue=1863 due imperf
1/13/1863 20pa blk pc=yel issue=1863 d=tughra (1863) imperf paper=thin
12/1/1863 20pa blk pc=yel issue=1863 d=tughra (1863) imperf paper=thick
postage due 1/13/1865 20pa dkredbrn issue=1865 due perf=12.5
1/13/1865 20pa yel issue=1865 dt=crescent & star d=crescent & star (1865) perf=12.5
1/13/1867 20pa yel issue=1867 dt=crescent & star d=crescent & star (1867) perf=12.5
1869 20pa ltgrn issue=1869 dt=crescent & star d=crescent & star (1869)
postage due 1/1/1869 20pa yelbrn&dkbrn issue=1869 due perf=13.25
postage due 1/1/1869 20pa yelbrn&redbrn issue=1869 due perf=13.25
1870 20pa graygrn issue=1870 dt=crescent & star d=crescent & star (1869) perf=5-11
1874 20pa yelgrn issue=1874 dt=crescent & star d=crescent & star (1874) perf=13.25
4/1876 20pa ltgrn issue=1876 Apr dt=crescent & star d=crescent & star (1876) perf=13.25
9/15/1876 20pa redvio&grn d=crescent (1876) perf=13.25
5/1/1880 20pa blk&rose issue=1880 d=crescent (1876)
1881 20pa gray d=crescent & star (1876) perf=13.25
1884 20pa rose&palerose issue=1884 d=crescent (1876)
postage due 3/13/1888 20pa blk issue=1888 due perf=13.25
6/5/1890 20pa rose&gray d=crescent (1876)
3/1892 20pa pink issue=1892 d=arms of sultan & tughra perf=13.5
postage due 3/10/1892 20pa grayblk&blk issue=1892 due perf=13.25
1898 20pa viobrn issue=1892 d=arms of sultan & tughra
newspaper 1898 20pa viobrn issue=newspaper 1893 d=arms of sultan & tughra ovpt=yyy oc=blk on=1898-20pa-viobrn
military 4/21/1898 20pa rose d=tughra & bridge perf=13.5
1901 20pa mag issue=1901a d=tughra (1901 a)
1901 20pa car issue=1901b d=tughra (1901 b)
postage due 1901 20pa blk&rose issue=1901 due b perf=13.25
postage due 1901 20pa blk&dkrose perf=13.25
1905 20pa car d=tughra (1905)
1906 20pa car issue=1906 discount d=tughra (1905) ovpt=B oc=blk on=1905-20pa-tughra (1905)
1908 20pa car d=tughra (1908)
1908 20pa car issue=1908 discount d=tughra (1908) ovpt=B oc=blk on=20pa-tughra (1908)
12/17/1908 20pa car issue=Granting of the Constitution d=tughra (1908 banderol)
12/1909 20pa car issue=1909a d=tughra (1909)
12/1909 20pa car issue=1909 b discount d=tughra (1909) ovpt=B oc=blk on=20pa-tughra (1909)
6/26/1911 20pa car issue=Macedonia visit Monastir b d=tughra (1901 b) ovpt=arabic//MONASTIR oc=blk on=20pa-tughra (1901 b)
6/26/1911 20pa issue=Macedonia visit Uskub b d=tughra (1901 b) ovpt=arabic//USKUB oc=blk on=20pa-tughra (1901 b)
6/26/1911 20pa issue=Macedonia visit Uskub a d=tughra (1901 a) ovpt=arabic//USKUB oc=blk on=20pa-tughra (1901 a)
6/26/1911 20pa issue=Macedonia visit Salonika b d=tughra (1901 b) ovpt=arabic//SALONIKA oc=blk on=20pa-tughra (1901 b)
6/26/1911 20pa issue=Macedonia visit Salonika a d=tughra (1901 a) ovpt=arabic//SALONIKA oc=blk on=20pa-tughra (1901 a)
6/26/1911 20pa issue=Macedonia visit Pristina b d=tughra (1901 b) ovpt=arabic//PRISTINA oc=blk on=20pa-tughra (1901 b)
6/26/1911 20pa issue=Macedonia visit Pristina a d=tughra (1901 a) ovpt=arabic//PRISTINA oc=blk on=20pa-tughra (1901 a)
6/26/1911 20pa mag issue=Macedonia visit Monastir a d=tughra (1901 a) ovpt=arabic//MONASTIR oc=blk on=20pa-tughra (1901 a)
postage due 1913 20pa blk pc=dprose perf=12
3/14/1913 20pa carrose issue=1913b d=post office, Constantinople ovpt=discount oc=blk on=issue=1913-20pa perf=12
3/14/1913 20pa carrose issue=1913 d=post office, Constantinople perf=12
10/23/1913 20pa red d=Mosque of Selim, Adrianople perf=12
postage due 1/10/1914 20pa bl issue=Adrianople due d=++on=40pa perf=12
1/14/1914 20pa red issue=1914 d=Castle of Europe perf=12
postage due 2/1/1914 20pa red issue=1914 due perf=12
(plus 38 more) (See all uses as list)