Romania 1993 Question

Hi,

Attached are two sheetlets issued by Romania in 1993. They are identical except that parts of the map is colored differently in one but not the other. The issue is about "75 years of state territory extension".

1. Can anyone shed light on the fact why there has been these two issues ?
2. The colored one has 28733 copies and the non-colored one 200000 copies issued (according to Michel). Has the former one been withdrawn ?

According to the Scott catalog: "redrawn because of an error in the map".

The map with Romania shaded in a single color is the corrected stamp.

Tahnks for the answer. Anyone knows what the error actually is ? I cannot visually locate it.

The odd number of copies (28733) sold (?) seems to also suggest that the sheetlet with the error has been withdrawn ?

Michel does not tell anymore than the copy numbers and that one is multicolored, the other one colored (in terms of the map).

Note shaded part of country in upper right hand side of map.
Don

The shaded part is the Republic of Moldova, a former part of Romania, until USSR grabbed it.

Hi,

Thanks for all the replies.

So it seems the unified coloring in the second issue means that Romania wanted to make clear that at the time Moldovia was integral part of the Kingdom of Romania after World War I and did not want to cast any doubt on that through the first issue.

Question remains on whether the first issue was in fact withdrawn due to the odd number of copies sold (28733) ? Can anyone shed light on that ?

It looks like the shaded area (the southern tip of Basarabia [Bessarabia]) inadvertently stretched into the Danube Delta (already part of Romania), so the initial design was retired, but 27,833 copies were sold before that.

Others say the error is a map stretch into Ukraine.
Anyway, nowadays Ukraine has a territory north of the Danube Delta.

"- In Romania au existat greseli intamplatoare? - Chiar, in 1993, s-a emis o colita care aniversa 75 de ani de la Marea Unire. Desenul a fost aprobat de Comisia Filatelica, apoi de Comisia de Istorie a Academiei Romane, a vazut-o toata lumea, iar dupa ce am tiparit-o, am vazut ca harta cuprindea si o parte din Ucraina. Pentru a evita un conflict diplomatic, a fost retrasa de pe piata. Din pacate, au apucat sa fie vandute peste 20.000 de bucati, asa ca valoarea nu e foarte mare.

Citeste mai mult: adevarul.ro/news/societate/sueta-cafea-1_50abb8867c42d5a6637f389b/index.html"

http://adevarul.ro/news/societate/s...b/index.html

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/..._Romania.svg
Administrative map of Romania in 1930.

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Moldavian ASSR (orange) and Romania, 1924–1940.

A Romanian philatelist friend said that [a part of] the Danube Delta was colored with the color used for the map of Basarabia [Bessarabia].

Yes, Danube Delta was not part of Basarabia.

Another Romanian philatelist friend said that Great Romania ["Romania Mare"] from 75 years ago should have been depicted with only one color on the map, as it was finally depicted on the second print run of the miniature sheet.
That whole territory was Great Romania, 75 years ago.

Also, the different color for the land of the modern-day Republic of Moldova (and a few more territories) MIGHT be interpreted as a political statement, about the historical injustice that cut Moldova in half, when USSR snatched the Eastern part of it.