Money and Stamps Honouring Coffee

Posted by sila on February 20, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

To celebrate the beginnings of coffee cultivation in 1748 in Cuba, a series of 200th anniversary coffee cultivation stamps were issued. Here are the ones for one, two and five Cuban cents. Around the same time other countries in South America issued their own coffee stamps. The aesthetic and symbolism with coffee is not only there for the enjoyment of stamp collectors and philately, but also for the world of numismatic. At the bottom there is a five shilling note from Kenya.  

Bicentennial Commemoration of Coffee Cultivation - One Cuban Cent Stamp, 1948

Bicentennial Commemoration of Coffee Cultivation - Two Cuban Cents Stamp, 1948

Bicentennial Commemoration of Coffee Cultivation - Five Cuban Cents Stamp, 1948

El Salvador, Ten Cents Stamp

Coffee of Brazil 1965

Coffee Stamp from Costa Rica, 1950

Five Shillings, Kenya

All stamp pictures taken from the book “Coffea Curiosa” (1968)  from Bernhard Rothfos, Hamburg, Germany

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