For June, I count 81 stamp-issuing entities having released 187 separate stamp sets which is down slightly from May’s totals of 214 issues by 86 postal administrations). It did seem like there were more “last-minute” announcements for issues this month than usual. Also, a fair number of the stamp releases were those originally scheduled for issuance in April or May but postponed due to the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. There was still a trickle of stamps issued under that theme (many, many more if you count the personalized stamps which will no longer be featured here on Philatelic Pursuits). The above numbers do not include non-postage stamps (other than a few ATM labels) or postal stationery, although I do occasionally include listings for both as I obtain information on them.
This post attempts to list every stamp released during the month of June 2020. Unless I hear otherwise, I assume that the issues went ahead as originally scheduled. Being able to find an image of an actual stamp rather than an artist’s rendition is always welcome.
The stamp-issuing entities are listed alphabetically and the date of issue chronologically for each issue. Clicking on the issue name will take you to the original post on Philatelic Pursuits where images may be found of the stamp(s) and often full sheets, first day covers and other items associated with that particular release.
An issue name highlighted in red denotes an issue that doesn’t (yet) have an article on this site. Eventually, the stamp will be added and this list updated with the link. Yellow means an active link to a New Issue post. Those issuing entities printed in blue link to the 2020 stamp programme on this site while grey means that I haven’t yet created a page for that particular stamp-issuing entity.
Details in the original blog entries are almost always taken directly from materials published by the issuers’ philatelic agency, either as press releases, collector announcements or online shop product descriptions. There are occasional poor translations, either provided by the postal administration themselves or as a result of translation software. They can be amusing at times. I always welcome better-quality scans of the actual stamps and any on-cover (non-philatelic) usages of this material. If you have anything you would like to share, please send me an email at the address below.
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Åland
05 June 2020
Andorra – French Administration
05 June 2020
- EUROPA — Ancient Postal Routes [on-sale date; first day of issue postmark reads 11 May 2020]
12 June 2020
19 June 2020
Andorra – Spanish Administration
30 June 2020
Armenia
16 June 2020
26 June 2020
Australia
09 June 2020
- Art of the Desert
- Lismore to Tenterfield Airmail Test Flight Centenary (pre-paid envelope)
16 June 2020
Austria
20 June 2020
25 June 2020
29 June 2020
Azerbaijan
02 June 2020
Belarus
01 June 2020
19 June 2020
28 June 2020
Belgium
15 June 2020
- Promotion of Philately — Places in the City of Liège
- EUROPA — Ancient Postal Routes
- Games of the XXXIIrd Olympiad, Tokyo 2020 — Team Belgium: Faster Higher Stronger
- Football — The Ball That Unites
Bosnia and Herzegovina [BH Pošta]
09 June 2020
Bosnia and Herzegovina [Mostar – Croatian Administration]
01 June 2020
Bosnia and Herzegovina [Pošte Srpske – Serbian Administration]
17 June 2020
- Flora
British Virgin Islands
15 June 2020
- Marine Fauna (definitive reprints)
Bulgaria
24 June 2020
- Urban Heraldry of Bulgaria
29 June 2020
- EUROPA — Ancient Postal Routes [postponed from April]
People’s Republic of China
06 June 2020
18 June 2020
21 June 2020
Colombia
06 June 2020
- National Natural Parks 60th Anniversary
Croatia
04 June 2020
- Tourism — Rovinj
19 June 2020
- Canonization of Saint Nikola Tavelić 50th Anniversary
Curaçao
18 June 2020
- United We Stand Against COVID-19
Czech Republic
16 June 2020
23 June 2020
Djibouti
12 June 2020
- Pastoral Visits of Pope John Paul II
Estonia
11 June 2020
- Butterflies — Marsh Fritillary (Euphydryas aurinia)
Finland
03 June 2020
- Made In Finland
- International Year of Plant Health — Wild Flowers
- NORDEN — Mammals (Yard Visitors: Hedgehogs and Squirrels)
France
05 June 2020
- Holiday — Space, Sun, Freedom (booklet stamps)
12 June 2020
- Boris Vian Birth Centenary (miniature sheet)
- Fréderic Dard dit San-Antonio
- Flowers of Grasse and the Mediterranean
13 June 2020
26 June 2020
- Olympe de Gouges [postponed from 24 April]
- Engraving
- Rodemack Moselle
- GR 20 50th Anniversary
Georgia
15 June 2020
- Lech Kacyński, President of Poland (joint issue with Poland)
Germany
04 June 2020
- Annaberger KÄT 500th Anniversary
- Katharina Kasper 200th Birth Anniversary
- United Nations 75th Anniversary
- European Football Championship [cancelled]
- North Sea Canal 125th Anniversary (postal card)
Gibraltar
01 June 2020
- Coat of Arms (definitives)
Great Britain
18 June 2020
- Roman Britain
Greece
15 June 2020
- COVID-19 Solidarity
Guinea
xx June 2020
- Africa Philatelic Hub 44th Anniversary/UPU Congress Abidjan (local stamp; not distributed outside of Guinea)
Hong Kong
23 June 2020
Hungary
03 June 2020
- First Hungarian In Space 40th Anniversary
04 June 2020
- Year of National Unity
05 June 2020
- 93rd Stamp Day
- UEFA European Championship / New Puskás Aréna
23 June 2020
- Games of the XXXIIrd Olympiad – Tokyo 2020
India
25 June 2020
- Musical Instruments of Wandering Minstrels
Isle Of Man
25 June 2020
- Snaefell Mountain Railway 125th Anniversary
Israel
09 June 2020
Italy
01 June 2020
- Giuseppe Ungaretti, Poet and Journalist
05 June 2020
- Festival of Sanpaoloni di San Cataldo
15 June 2020
- Alberto Sordi
19 June 2020
- Pasta Divella
29 June 2020
- EUROPA — Ancient Postal Routes [postponed from 9 May]
Japan
01 June 2020
10 June 2020
16 June 2020
19 June 2020
Jersey
09 June 2020
Kazakhstan
xx June 2020
- Aral Trout (Salmo trutta aralensis)
- Kazakhstanskaya Pravda Newspaper Centenary
- United Nations 75th Anniversary
- Anti-Corruption Campaign
Kosovo
10 June 2020
Liechtenstein
01 June 2020
- Panorama — Waters
- Egon Reinberger, 150th Birth Anniversary
- SEPAC — Artwork from the State Collection
- Games of the XXXIIrd Olympiad, Tokyo 2020
Lithuania
05 June 2020
- Elijah of Vilnius, the Vilnius Gaon, 300th Birth Anniversary [postponed from 10 April]
12 June 2020
- EUROPA — Ancient Postal Routes [postponed from 24 April]
- Hill of Crosses
19 June 2020
- Gastronomic Heritage — Cold Borscht
Luxembourg
09 June 2020
- Diocese of Luxembourg 150th Anniversary
- Plastic Arts Section in Secondary-Level Education 40th Anniversary
- Rural Tourism
- EUROPA — Ancient Postal Routes
Macau
08 June 2020
- Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (reprint of 2019 ATM label)
12 June 2020
24 June 2020
Malaysia
16 June 2020
- Marine Life
Malta
08 June 2020
- SEPAC — Artwork from the National Collection
Monaco
03 June 2020
11 June 2020
- Ludwig von Beethoven 250th Birth Anniversary
- Oceanographic Museum of Monaco — Corals
25 June 2020
- SEPAC — Artwork in the National Collection
Mongolia
04 June 2020
- Architecture in Mongolia
19 June 2020
- World War II 75th Anniversary
Montenegro
16 June 2020
- Games of the XXXII Olympiad Tokyo 2020
Morocco
12 June 2020
- World Environment Day
Namibia
18 June 2020
- Batises
Netherlands
15 June 2020
- Experience Nature — Coastal Birds
- Typically Dutch — Bitterballen (Meatballs)
New Zealand
03 June 2020
Niger
10 June 2020
- Pastoral Visits of Pope John Paul II
Norfolk Island
02 June 2020
North Korea
01 June 2020
- International Children’s Day
16 June 2020
- Architectural Buildings
North Macedonia
08 June 2020
- Tourism
Norway
12 June 2020
- New Edvard Munch Museum, Bjørvika
- Dogs
Oman
22 June 2020
- Solidarity in the Face of COVID-19
Poland
15 June 2020
- Rzeczpospolita Newspaper Centenary
- Animals and Their Young
Portugal
22 June 2020
- Royal Academy of History 300th Anniversary
Romania
10 June 2020
- Squirrels
15 June 2020
- Mihai Eminescu, Poet
18 June 2020
- Emil Racoviță Cave Exploring Institute Centenary
24 June 2020
- Traditional Wedding Costumes
Russia
01 June 2020
03 June 2020
09 June 2020
11 June 2020
- European Football Championship [cancelled]
- Referendum on Constitutional Amendments 2020
15 June 2020
- Pavel M. Obukhov Birth Anniversary Bicentenary (postal card)
16 June 2020
17 June 2020
19 June 2020
22 June 2020
24 June 2020
26 June 2020
San Marino
16 June 2020
- Pope John Paul II Birth Centenary
- European Football Championship
- Greetings
- Athletic Games of Small European States
- Gianni Rodari, Children’s Author, Birth Centenary
- Asiago Philatelic Art Prize 50th Anniversary
Slovak Republic
05 June 2020
- The Philatelic Olympics [need to update with images]
17 June 2020
- Nature Protection — Botanical Garden in Košice (Magnolia Grandiflora) [need to update with images]
South Korea
05 June 2020
30 June 2020
Spain
05 June 2020
08 June 2020
11 June 2020
12 June 2020
15 June 2020
- International LGBTQ Pride Day
- Traditions and Customs — Virgin del Collado Stewardship, Santisteban del Puerto
22 June 2020
25 June 2020
26 June 2020
29 June 2020
30 June 2020
Sri Lanka
08 June 2020
- Faculty of Technology, University of Sri Jayawardenapura
Suriname
03 June 2020
- Birds
Taiwan
20 June 2020
Tajikistan
xx June 2020
- United Against COVID-19
Thailand
24 June 2020
Tunisia
02 June 2020
- Rock Art
24 June 2020
- Dams
Turkey
05 June 2020
- World Environment Day
Ukraine
03 June 2020
- Municipal Coats of Arms (definitives)
19 June 2020
- Ivan Franko National Drama Theater Centenary
25 June 2020
United Arab Emirates
09 June 2020
- Arab League 75th Anniversary
United Nations
11 June 2020
- Sports For Peace — Games of the XXXII Olympiad Tokyo 2020 [New York/Geneva/Vienna: postponed to 2021]
United States of America
13 June 2020
15 June 2020
- USA Flag (pre-paid envelope)
Vatican City
23 June 2020
- Saint Teresa of the Andes Birth Centenary
- EUROPA — Ancient Postal Routes
- Raphael 500th Death Anniversary
- International Year of Plant Health
Vietnam
01 June 2020
Wallis & Futuna
18 June 2020
- DeGaulle’s Appeal of 18 June, 80th Anniversary
Zimbabwe
02 June 2020
- Postal Services in Zimbabwe