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U.S. #C108u
1983 40¢ Women’s Swimming and Men’s Weightlifting
Summer Olympics Issue

 

Issue Date: April 8, 1983
First City: Los Angeles, California
Printed by: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Printing Method: Photogravure
Perforation: 11.2 Bullseye

Color: Mult...  more

U.S. #C108u
1983 40¢ Women’s Swimming and Men’s Weightlifting
Summer Olympics Issue

 

Issue Date: April 8, 1983
First City: Los Angeles, California
Printed by: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Printing Method: Photogravure
Perforation: 11.2 Bullseye

Color: Multicolored

 

This Fleetwood cover pictures two stamps commemorating the 23rd Olympic Games, which were held in Los Angeles during the summer of 1984.  The stamps feature women’s swimming and men’s weightlifting.

 

The United States women’s swim team earned a total of 34 medals in 1984, including 21 gold medals.

 

Olympic weightlifting is divided into eight weight classes. Each athlete competes in both the “snatch and clean” and the “jerk.”

 

All 12 of the 1983 Commemorative Airmails picture athletes participating in Olympic events.  These stamps were issued in anticipation of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles.  The Games were boycotted by the Soviet Union and many other Communist nations. Many saw this as revenge for the U.S. boycotting the 1980 Games held in Moscow.   

 

 
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