BASKETBALL STAMPS

Celebrating the game of basketball on stamps

A site by Garo Salibian

 

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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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