# C127 - 1990 45c AMERICA Caribbean coastal scene
1990 45¢ Tropical Coast
Pre-Columbian America
First City: Grand Canyon, Arizona
Quantity Issued: 48,000,000
Printed by: American Bank Note Company
Printing Method: Photogravure
Perforation: 11
Start Of The America Series
The stamp series was a collaboration between the 24 Western Hemisphere countries in the Postal Union of the Americas and Spain (PUAS). PUAS was originally founded in 1911 as the South American Postal Union to encourage the improvement of postal services. The US joined the union in 1922.
In 1988, two USPS officials flew to Havana, Cuba, a country with no diplomatic relations with the US at the time, and whose stamps were embargoed, to discuss the project with other members of the PUAS. The meeting was intended to coordinate efforts between the nations on design and marketing and to help those countries that had research, design, or printing issues. Each stamp from each country had to include a special PUAS logo and a stylized posthorn and the word AMERICA larger than the issuing country’s name. In the Spanish-speaking countries, the logo is UPAE, for Union Postal de las Américas y España.
1990 45¢ Tropical Coast
Pre-Columbian America
First City: Grand Canyon, Arizona
Quantity Issued: 48,000,000
Printed by: American Bank Note Company
Printing Method: Photogravure
Perforation: 11
Start Of The America Series
The stamp series was a collaboration between the 24 Western Hemisphere countries in the Postal Union of the Americas and Spain (PUAS). PUAS was originally founded in 1911 as the South American Postal Union to encourage the improvement of postal services. The US joined the union in 1922.
In 1988, two USPS officials flew to Havana, Cuba, a country with no diplomatic relations with the US at the time, and whose stamps were embargoed, to discuss the project with other members of the PUAS. The meeting was intended to coordinate efforts between the nations on design and marketing and to help those countries that had research, design, or printing issues. Each stamp from each country had to include a special PUAS logo and a stylized posthorn and the word AMERICA larger than the issuing country’s name. In the Spanish-speaking countries, the logo is UPAE, for Union Postal de las Américas y España.