Sundry information on your stamp, and territory.
The Pineapple and the Conch Shell
"Interinsular" postage
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Askphil :
Bahamas: island group of British West Indies, British Commonwealth Independent State; currency: 12 pence = 1 shilling;
20 shillings = 1 pound, 100 cents = 1 dollar (1966),
1760s: letters known,
1763: became a British colony,
1804: Bahamas straight line cancel used,
1841: "Crown Paid" handstamp initiated by Royal Mail Line,
1858-59, Apr.: stamps of Great Britain used,
1859, June 10: "Interinsular Postage" inter-island mail inscription for first stamps issued since external mails were under control of London until May 1860,
1860: No.1, 1 penny dull lake; first stamp,
1860, May: "Interinsular Postage" inscription removed from stamps,
1863: Bahamas inscription used,
1915-16: Bahamas stamps sold in Canada,
1916: first special delivery stamp, 1917, May 18: first semipostal stamp, 1918, Feb. 21: first War Tax stamp issued,
1964, Jan. 7: internal self-government,
1973, July 10: independence,
1974, April 24: joined UPU.
1983, Oct. 13: first air mail stamp issued.