POSTCARD N.188 - CYPRUS

Postcard sent on ?; received on the 9th September 2025.

Postcard image: Images from a Cyprus village

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Michal was in Cyprus on holidays and he kindly sent me a postcard with images from Cyprus, with a decidedly Mediterranean look. Moc děkuji, Michal.

Not much to say about the images on the postcards, apart from noting their Mediterranean aura... in fact I would not question it if the legend in the postcard would read South of Spain, or Portugal, or Malta...

The only thing I find a little different from what I'd see here, is the oven, and only because of its "façade" design, since I would not expect more than a door in it, in our local versions, and maybe  a different colour, since ours tend to be made in red or orange of yellowish bricks....

The Butterfly stamp featuring a Cigaritis acamas cypriaca, a member of the Lycaenidae family that can be found from North Africa and the Near East to India, and also being present in Cyprus, was issued on 12FEB2020, as part of a three stamp set (0.34; 0.41; 0.64 €) dedicated to Butterflies of Cyprus.

To the left of the butterfly stamp there's the Refugee stamp that is mandatory in all postage in Cyprus, the value of which is meant to help maintain the Refugee Fund created by the Cypriot Government to deal with the problems caused by the Turkish invasion of the island in 1974.

The Refugee stamp, mandatory in any posted object, was established in 1971, with a value of 10 mils. 

From 1984, the refugee stamp started to be denominated in Euro with a value of 1 cent and, from 1989 on, it has become an yearly issue, always with the same design but with a different background colour. Staring in 2008 it's face value was increased to the current 2 cents.

As usual with postcards from Cyprus, the post office didn't bother to obliterate the stamp, so I have no clue as to where or when the postcard was sent.