Travel the World of Postage Stamps - Prehistoric Animals - Great Sloth (Megalocnus rodens) - Cuba 1982 - Michel Cuba 2695 - my hobby

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When you are told that now you will see prehistoric, extinct animals, then, unwittingly, with a high probability, you expect to see huge creatures comparable in size to dinosaurs, or at worst, mammoths, but expectation and reality may not converge in one point.

But, a postage stamp from series Prehistoric Animals, issued on the island of Cuba in 1982, with a face value of 35 Cuban centavos, lives up to our expectations and we see a Gycan animal called the Great Sloth (Megalocnus rodens).

Regardless of the fact that a sloth must be lazy, I do not think that meeting such a giant in the garden would be very pleasant.

If you have an armful of fresh leaves in your hands, get rid of it quickly so that this charming bruiser does not trample you.

Don't worry though, we can only see it on a postage stamp in other animal painters' fantasies.

Let's take a look at this postage stamp.

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Information about this postage stamp:

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Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: Cuba.
Subject: # Fauna, # Animals, # Nature, # Cuba.
Series: Prehistoric Animals.
Name: Great Sloth (Megalocnus rodens).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 35 ¢ - Cuban centavo.
Michel's Cuba catalog code: 2695.
Episode release date: September 15, 1982.
Perforation: comb 12¾.
Postage stamp size: 33 x 44 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: 450,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ ? - $ ?.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.56 - $ 1.45.
Photo: original from @barski collection.

Canceled postage stamp

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Below, you will see previous postage stamps from this series and links to their descriptions:

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Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: Cuba.
Subject: # Fauna, # Animals, # Nature, # Cuba.
Series: Prehistoric Animals.
Name: Hutia (Geocapromys colombianus).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 20 ¢ - Cuban centavo.
Michel's Cuba catalog code: 2694.
Episode release date: September 15, 1982.
Perforation: comb 12¾.
Postage stamp size: 44 x 33 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: 450,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ ? - $ ?.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.45 - $ 0.85.
Photo: original from @barski collection.

Canceled postage stamp

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Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: Cuba.
Subject: # Fauna, # Animals, # Nature, # Cuba.
Series: Prehistoric Animals.
Name: Cuban Fossile Eagle (Aquila borrasi).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 7 ¢ - Cuban centavo.
Michel's Cuba catalog code: 2693.
Episode release date: September 15, 1982.
Perforation: comb 12¾.
Postage stamp size: 33 x 44 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: 450,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ ? - $ ?.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.45 - $ 0.85.
Photo: original from @barski collection.

Canceled postage stamp

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Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: Cuba.
Subject: # Fauna, # Animals, # Nature, # Cuba.
Series: Prehistoric Animals.
Name: Cuban Crocodyle (Crocodylus rhombifer).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 5 ¢ - Cuban centavo.
Michel's Cuba catalog code: 2692.
Episode release date: September 15, 1982.
Perforation: comb 12¾.
Postage stamp size: 44 x 33 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: 450,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ ? - $ ?.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.45 - $ 0.85.
Photo: original from @barski collection.

Canceled postage stamp

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Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: Cuba.
Subject: # Fauna, # Animals, # Nature, # Cuba.
Series: Prehistoric Animals.
Name: Cuban Giant Owl (Ornimegalonyz oteroi).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 1 ¢ - Cuban centavo.
Michel's Cuba catalog code: 2691.
Episode release date: September 15, 1982.
Perforation: comb 12¾.
Postage stamp size: 33 x 44 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: 450,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ ? - $ ?.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.45 - $ 0.85.
Photo: original from @barski collection.

Canceled postage stamp

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To be continued!

You can see the development of the story of my postage stamp collection on my Leofinance blog.

Author @barski

Ukraine

I edited a photo in the program PhotoDirector, which I also installed on my smartphone.
For my publications, I do not use stock photographs, it is fundamentally important for me to use photographs that I have made with my own hands for publication and I can name them - authorial work.

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