New series of stamps on 1.7.2010 for cigarettes and smoking tobacco

The Danish tobacco tax on cigarettes, pipe tobacco and cigarette tobacco is changed on 1 July 2010. The new stamps for cigarettes will have the identification code of number 4, while smoking tobacco (pipe tobacco and cigarette tobacco) will have the identification code of number 1. For collectors, the new stamps for cigarettes are identified as series 50, for pipe tobacco as series 37, and for cigarette tobacco as series 30.

According to the law, the taxes will be changed again from the beginning of the year of 2013.



Examples of the new stamps in 3 different sizes. Company codes: DAN (used for Philip Morris products in Denmark), STGA (Scandinavian Tobacco Group Assens) and MBTC (MacBaren Tobacco Company).