✨ Discovery of the day
Year: 1960
Proclamation of Independence
This definitive stamp highlights Mauritania's historic caste of skilled artisans and traditional manufacturing techniques by focusing on a blacksmith (forgeron). The design depicts a craftsman seated cross-legged on the ground, intently using a traditional pump drill to bore into a piece of material, with a classic desert encampment faintly visible on the horizon. This illustration carries a powerful message of manual precision, technical mastery, and economic self-reliance, honoring the vital social and utilitarian role that metalworkers and woodworkers have historically fulfilled within Saharan communities. Within the Mauritanian cultural context, the stamp celebrates the resilience of indigenous crafts, elevating these age-old, generational trade secrets as key components of the new republic's material heritage and national identity.
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MIFERMA Zouerate Iron Ore Mine
Air Mauritania Douglas DC-3 over Nouakchott Airport
Freedom from Hunger Campaign
First Anniversary of the Congress for Unity
Second Anniversary of Independence
First Anniversary of UN Admission
Modern Transport and Nomadic Life
8th Conference of the Organization to Fight Endemic Diseases
1st Anniversary of the African and Malagasy Union (UAM)
Admission to the United Nations - 85 franc
Admission to the United Nations - 25 franc
Admission to the United Nations - 15 franc
Anti-Malaria Campaign
Foundation of Air Afrique
Traditional Geometric Mosaic - 25 franc
Traditional Geometric Mosaic - 20 franc
Traditional Geometric Mosaic - 15 franc
Traditional Geometric Mosaic - 10 franc
Traditional Geometric Mosaic - 5 franc
Traditional Geometric Mosaic - 2 franc
Traditional Geometric Mosaic - 1 franc
Cross of Trarza - 200 franc
Cross of Trarza - 100 franc