1949, DDR Dienstmarke der State coats of arms 5 pf green

1949, DDR  Dienstmarke der State coats of arms 

This is one of the rare stamps from Dienstmarke der DDR State coats of arms 

1949, DDR  Dienstmarke der State coats of arms 5 pf green

1. Motiv: Dienstmarke der DDR State coats of arms 
2. Year: 1949
3. Text: Dienstmarke DDR 
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6. Condition: Ø = used/cancelled
7. Keywords: Dienstmarke der DDR State coats of arms 5 pf green 1949
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The German Democratic Republic (GDR; German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik [ˈdɔʏtʃə demoˈkʀaːtɪʃə ʀepuˈbliːk] orDDR), informally known in English as East Germany, was a socialist state established by the Soviet Union in 1949 out of theSoviet zone of occupied Germany, including East Berlin of the Allied-occupied capital city. The GDR had an area of 107,771 km² (41,610 mi²), bordering Czechoslovakia to the south, West Germany to the south and west, Poland to the east, and the Baltic Sea to the north. East Germany ceased to exist when its federal states were re-established and acceded to theFederal Republic of Germany on 3 October 1990

The first stamp was issued on 9 October 1949, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) (Mi #242). Regular air mail service started in 1950, beginning with the Soviet Union, then with other countries. With the creation of two German states, mail between the two was handled according to the regulations of the UPU.

According to the Scott catalog, during the next 41 years the DP( Deutsche Post) issued more stamps than any other postal authority in Germany - 2,802 different stamps including manycommemoratives, plus 191 semi-postal designs, and 16 air mail stamps. Topics of commemoratives include common topicals (i.e. nature, sports, arts), science and technical issues, and communist-related themes. Additional stamps of the DP consisted of official stamps (44 types). Following the economic and currency union of the two German states on 1 July 1990, stamps were denominated in Deutsche Mark. The last DP stamp issue, on 2 October 1990, was a Heinrich Schliemann commemorative (Mi #3364/5).

Stamps were to some degree produced for sale to gain hard currency abroad, and while valid these stamps were not issued for circulation to the general public but sold directly to stamp dealers abroad and to registered philatelists. The DP invented the practice of producing a specific stamp in a set at an intentionally low number- called a Sperrwert (limited issue stamp) - to artificially increase the value of the stamp and the set.^[6] The first Sperrwert was the Mi #464. An example of a Sperrwert is the 25 Pfennig stamp of the 1981 postal set Mi #2587. The other stamps in the set were printed in quantities ranging from 4.5 million to 16 million, but only 2 million of the 25 Pfennig stamp were printed