Serbia 2024 year issues:

 Serbia 2024 year issues - what to say about?

Clearly - nothing good!

I start to ask (myself), if there, in Serbia, people that decide, organize, select (and so on), postage stamps program for year to come care about postage stamps, Philately, image of country, money that collectors will need to spend, or they - “they” just care about “profit in any way”!?

Probably, the last one is in question!

See: according to my listing, we have this “fascinating” 41 (or 44, depending how You count it) issues in the 2024 year! Holy Spirit! If I counted well, it is 6886 Serbian dinar, in the case that You take just ONE stamp of each printed in this year. According to the exchange rate, it is around 64.00 US$. Now, if we take into account that monthly salary in Serbia is around 750.00 US$, I will say, it is too much to take from income! 

Design? What a design! There, from this 41, I can not mention anything that can say, or remind us, that this design is actually art! Postage stamps are one kind of ART, art that expresses the time we live, ideas, science, and so on. Even the issue  “Nikola Tesla” was made in poor design! Single that I can say is more or less, good design, which was ruined by small dimension, is the EXPO 2027 issue (shown), which is not original design, but it is design “borrowed” from Yugoslavia 1967 year, issue for EXPO “67 (Michel catalog number 1216-1221, Scott catalog number 870-875).

And next what I wish to say, go for Serbia Post Administration (actually, a public company, owned by gov’t), that there is no way that with all kinds of “naive” decisions to allow a lot of stamp printing, companies will make stable income for the period to come!

Here we come to show it:

1-2024 "China New Year:

2-2024 "Serbia-Slovenia, our great people":

3-2024 "Letopis Matice Srpske":

4-2024 "Radio Belgrade":

5-2024 "Prominent Serbs":

6-2024 "Heroes":

7-2024 "Art - M. Jonas":

8-2024 "Law - Civil Code":

9-2024 "Nikola Tesla":

10-2024 "Standardization":

11-2024 "Easter":

12-2024 "Friend of Serbia":

13-2024 "EUROPA":

14-2024 "Stamp Day":

15-2024 "Ensemble KOLO":

16-2024 "Film Archive":

17-2024 "Education":

18-2024 "Writers":

19-2024 "Serbia-Canada":

20-2024 "WWI Heroes":

21-2024 "Serbia-France":

22-2024 "Railway":

23-2024 "EXPO '27":

24-2024 "Religion":

25-2024 "Halyard Operation - WWII":

26-2024 "Joy of Europe":

27-2024 "European Values":

28-2024 "Health Institute":

29-2024 "Liberation of Belgrade - WWII":

30-2024 "Nature Protection":

31-2024 "Serbia-Indonesia":

32-2024 "RTV Voivodina":

33-2024 "Australian Medical - WWI":

34-2024 "Army":

35-2024 "Serbia-Russia":

36-2024 "St. Patron of Family":

37-2024 "Christmas":

38-2024 "Theatre":

39-2024 "Greats of World Art":

40-2024 "POLITIKA Newspaper":

41-2024 "Magyar Szo Newspaper":

Postage Due 1-2024:

Good luck in 2025!

2023 - till end of the year:

 This was a really "hard" year for Philately of Serbia!

From middle of the year, and till now, I have no material in my stock from this period of 2023 year. Reason was really bizarre or better say, illogical, and it start with some kind of political decision to cut all postal delivery from Serbia to Israel. No airplane to deliver mail from there, but I have one "reserve" option to do it by third party. And this third party (Slovenia, Croatia) decided same as Serbia.

So, I wait, and wait, and wait .... than, exactly when I decided to go to Serbia, "they" decided to renew delivery. Good I was there, so delivery by Post of Serbia was out of matter, good from it come that I, actually, saved a lot of money on postage cost.

Same this time, I will just show "the new issues", because it is a lot of it to describe each one separately. Need to mention few things for Serbia policy, in issuing postage stamps, and one that bother the most is quantity of issues per 2023 year that reach impossible of fifty (50) titles! After this first "problem", come sheet composition of some issues, which are still in sheet of five, or eight or ten stamps per sheet, but with all kind of gutters, tabs and the edge of the printing sheets! With this "material", it will be almost impossible to complete one specialized collection of modern Serbia. Third reason are "The Prices", even that there are (still) this "half dollar" face value stamps (Serbian Dinar are currency there), more and more come issues with "Full Dollar" face value/s, and when we take in account that one set are (mostly) six or eight stamps, than the value of full set can go to really expensive ten to twelve dollar per set which are printed in sheet of ten, so calculate it by self!

Fine, between all negative (and exist few more like design, or "unnecessary topic), can I mention something positive? Not too much, except one really nice design of issues like "Rulers of Serbia", or like "Protected Animals" (which I can say that with this issue, they made one really nice job), probably deserve to be mentioned this "Milankovic" issue too.

Hope that 2024 year material will come in near future, so I can show it to the public, and just to mention that exchange rate (as today) come: 

1 US$ = 103 Serbian Dinar

you will see, that some issues are really expensive but some is very affordable (like 100 year of Turkish Republic) where You have one mini sheet of less than one dollar face value, with small quantity printed, someone purchased all available FDC, and now, even regular subscriber can not have this item. Some kind of manipulation? Yes, I'm sure!

Let's start (continue from previous post):

22-2023 "Philatelist Union":

23-2023 "Rowing":

24-2023 "BalkanPhila Exhibition":

Here I need to mention, that this sheet of 8, are made in three different option, where gutter on middle are not same. Shown are just first (standard) option, and second and third I didn't received yet!

25-2023 "PostEurop":

26-2023 "Rulers of Serbia":

27-2023 "Chess":

28-2023 "Serbia-Egypt":

29-2023 "Petefi Sandor":

30-2023 "Joy of Europe":

31-2023 "Novosti Daily":

32-2023 "Art - Konjovic":

33-2023 "Air Serbia":

34-2023 "100 years of Turkey":

With this issue, we have an problem - NO FDC available on market!

35-2023 "Art - Sculpture":

36-2023 "Serbia-China - Belt and Road":

37-2023 "Castle":

38-2023 "Protected Animals":

39-2023 "Milankovich":

40-2023 "Basketball in Serbia":

41-2023 "Serbia-Slovakia":

42-2023 "Artist of the World":

43-2023 "Art":

44-2023 "Christmas":

45-2023 "Patron Day":

46-2023 "Culture of China":

47-2023 "Famous Serbian":

48-2023 "Friends of Serbia":

Really don't know which kind of friends they are, to deserve this title!

49-2023 "Actor - Bata Zivojinovich":

Postage Due # 4 and 5 of 2023 "Grape and Peach":

...shortly, prepare some "nice" expenses to pay if You collect Serbia Philately, and take in calculation, that any dealer will have sales prices more than twice face value (probably), because this high delivery cost around globe!

Good Luck (מזל טוב) and we will see what 2024 will bring us!