Serbia stamp: 2025

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Serbia 2025 - first half of year:

So, here we are in 2025 year!

If we compare it to 2024, probably, they (Serbia Post Company) understand little bit, that quantity is not way to keep Philatelist purchasing new issues from Serbia.

In 2024, they made 44 issues total, and now, in 2025 half way, we have "only" 18. Let's see what will be till end of the year.

Personally, I'm not satisfied with design! It is "feeling" that they overused idea, and now just use "old and worn out design" of postage stamps. If we compare it with 2024 year, it start with same design of "China New Year" and continue with same design for all kind of important events from Serbian history, but - BUT still in same design like before! I will not say that it is boring, but feeling of exhausted idea in design is here!

For this half year, I can't single out a single release for which I would say "wow, this is the good" by design! Probably, if we will search for something that can "help" in critics or if we can look for something that will alleviate the negative feeling for design, is issue for "Swan Lake" but just design for CM (Carte Maximum), and another one (even that this "style" was used before) for "Military Academy".

Two worst design (according my opinion) go for "Jasenovac Death Camp", which is terribly wrong choice to celebrate this really important moment in WWII and breakout from death camp in NDH - Croatia! It is made by work of nun Marija, and probably, more suitable for museum or church, but not for postage stamp that need to send some visual "massage" to public.

Another that come in this "my opinion" is issue for WWII Victory Day! Victory Day, WWII, with all kind of historic moments, putting flag on Bundestag, liberation of Yugoslavia, and all other moments available for artist to made one really precise point in title "Victory Day - WWII"! But, choice fall for this "putting flag of Yugoslavia on an electric pole - Holy Spirit!

Hope that second half of year will give us more interesting and attractive design, and here you can see this first half of year:

1-2025 "China New Year":

2-25 "Uprising":

3-2025 "Military Academy":

4-2025 "Easter":

5-2025 Laza Kostic":

6-2025 "Jasenovac Death Camp - WWII":

7-2025 "Swan Lake - Ballet":

8-2025 "Nature Protection":

9-2025 "EUROPA":

10-2025 "Victory Day - WWII":

11-2025 "Stamp Day":

12-2025 "Palic ZOO - Protected Animals":

13-2025 "Post of Serbia - Modernization":

14-2025 "World EXPO - Serbia":

15-2025 "Nevesinje Rifle":

16-2025 "J. Strauss II - Danube Day":

17-2025 "D. Engelbart":

18-2025 "R. A. Reiss":

....we will continue .....

Thursday, March 13, 2025

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: