Dante Alighieri

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Name	Value
Date of Issue	July 17, 1965
Year	1965
Quantity	112,000,000
Denomination	5¢
Denomination Value	$0.05
Color	Maroon on tan paper
Issue Location	San Francisco, Calif.
Size	0.84 x 1.44 inches (vertical)
Postal Administration	United States

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About Stamp

The Department issued the 5-cent stamp commemorating the 700th anniversary of the birth of Dante Alighieri through the San Francisco, Calif., post office on July 17, 1965.

Douglas Gorsline's design simulates the style of early Florentine allegorical paintings. Dante is shown wearing a laurel wreath, symbolic of poetry, against a background related to the poem "The Divine Comedy."

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