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AFARS AND ISSAS (FRENCH TERRITORY OF) -- 1976 -- Olympic Games, Montreal
Stamps:1
Denomination: 10 Francs

AJMAN -- Olympics
basketball
Number of stamps: 1 depicting USA Basketball team

ANGOLA -- 1999 --
Afrobasket - African Basketball Championship for Men
Number of stamps: 1 featuring a basketball going into the basket
Denomination: KZR 2,500,000.00
CANADA -- 1991 --100th Anniversary of the invention of basketball by Canadian James Naismith
Number of stamps: 1
Denomination: 40 Canadian cents

COMORES ISLANDS (FEDERAL ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF) -- Basketball
Stamps: 1
Denomination: 200 Francs

CROATIA -- 1994 -- Commemorative stamp for Croatian basketball player Drazen Petrovic
Stamps: 1
Denomination: 1.00 Croatian Kuna

http://mirror.veus.hr/stamps/1994/drazen.html
CROATIA -- 1997 (Part of a series)
Croatian basketball silver medal in the Barcelona Olympics (1992)
Stamps: 1
Denomination: 1.20 Croatian Kuna

FRENCH POLYNESIA -- 1991 -- Centennial of basketball
Stamps: 1
Denomination: 80 Francs

GERMANY -- 1997 -- Streetball
Stamps: Series of 4 including streetball, inline skating, aerobics and free climbing
Denomination: Basketball stamp at 100+50 pfenigs.
JAPAN (Nippon) -- 2002 - World Wheelchair Basketball Championships
Number of stamps: 1
Denomination: 80 yens

JORDAN -- 1957 -- Jordanian medal in Arab Military Basketball Championships
Number of stamps: 3
Denomination: 160, 80 and 60 Jordanian Fils

LATVIA -- 1994 -- Basketball Festival Riga '94
Number of Stamps: 1 depicting streetball
Denomination: 15 (s)
http://home.nestor.minsk.by/fsunews/latvia/1994/lv370.htm
LIBERIA -- 2002 -- Wang ZhiZhi on being drafted to the NBA
Number of stamps: 6 stamps of WangZhiZhi "The Brave Pioneer" set
and 6 more stamps of Wang ZhiZhi "The Flying Great Wall" set
Denominations: Each 25 Liberian Dollars


LITHUANIA -- 1939 -- Basketball Championships
Number of stamps: 3
Denominations: 15 + 10 , 60 + 40 , 30 + 15
LUXEMBOURG -- 1983 -- 50th Anniversary of the Luxembourg Basketball Federation
Number of stamps: 1
Denomination: 7 Francs

PARAGUAY -- 1960 -- Olympic Games, Rome
Set: 7 stamp set including 3 dedicated to basketball and 4 to soccer

TUNISIA -- 1987 -- 6th African Basketball Championship
Number of stamps: 1
Denomination: 350 Tunisian millimes

UNITED STATES -- 1991 -- Basketball Centennial
Number of stamps: 1
Denomination: 29 cents

First Day of Issue cover: August 28, 1991 souvenir sheet

Also see: http://www.harmonydesigns.com/subject-detail.lasso/recordToDisplay~32930/index.las
UNITED STATES -- 1996 -- Centennial Olympic Games: Basketball
Denomination: 32 cents

UNITED STATES -- 2000 -- (Part of a series on) Youth Team Sports
Denomination: 33 cents

USSR -- 1954
Denomination: 1 Ruble

USSR -- 1956 -- The Spartakiade
Denomination: 1 Ruble

USSR -- 1959
Denomination: 1 Ruble

USSR -- 1963 -- The Third Spartakiade
Denomination: 12K

USSR -- 1965 -- European Basketball Championship
Denomination: 1 Ruble
USSR -- 1971 -- 5th Spartakiade
Denomination: 10K

USSR -- 1976 -- Olympic Games XXI
Denomination: 6K

USSR -- 1979 -- XXII Olympic Games of 1980
Denomination: 6K + 3K

USSR -- 1986 -- World Women Basketball Championship
Number of stamps: 1 featuring basketball scoring in the net
Denomination: 15K.

USSR -- 1988 -- XXIV Olympic Games
Denomination: 15K

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