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Postage stamp no 1868 from the series „Nicolaus Copernicus. His Life and Work”
- Creator: Helena Matuszewska, engraved Barbara Kowalska
- Date: 26 June 1970
- Description: Postage stamp featuring a portrait of Copernicus based on a miniature drawing by Vincent de Lesseur and a panoramic view of Padua after a 15th-century print. Print run of 6,504,000 stamps
- Location: Ewa Sikora’s Collection
Postage stamp no 1869 from the series „Nicolaus Copernicus. His Life and Work”
- Creator: Helena Matuszewska, engraved Bogusław Brandt
- Date: 26 June 1970
- Description: Postage stamp featuring a portrait of Copernicus based on a painting by Zinck Nor and a panoramic view of Ferrara after a 15th-century print. Print run of 3,070,000 stamps
- Location: Ewa Sikora’s Collection
Postage stamp no 1940 from the series „Tourism – following the trail of Copernicus”
- Date: 1971
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Postage stamp no 2085 from the series „500th anniversary of Copernicus’ birth”
- Creator: Henryk Chyliński
- Date: 1973
- Description: Postage stamp with the image of Copernicus after Bacciarelli
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Postage stamp no 2086 from the series „500th Anniversary of Copernicus’ Birth”
- Creator: Henryk Chyliński
- Date: 1973
- Description: Postage stamp showing an image of Copernicus based on the so-called 'Toruń portrait'
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Postage stamp no 2087 from the series „500th Anniversary of Copernicus’ Birth”
- Creator: Henryk Chyliński
- Date: 1973
- Description: Postage stamp showing an image of Copernicus based on the so-called 'Gołuchów portrait'
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Postage stamp no 2088 from the series „500th Anniversary of Copernicus’ Birth”
- Creator: Henryk Chyliński
- Date: 18 February 1973
- Description: Postage stamp showing an image of Copernicus after an engraving by Tobias Stimmer. Print run of 5,215,000 stamps
- Location: Artur Sikora’s Collection
Postage stamp no 2089 from the series „500th Anniversary of Copernicus’ Birth”
- Creator: Henryk Chyliński
- Date: 18 February 1973
- Description: Postage stamp showing an image of Copernicus after a painting by Jan Matejko. Print run of 1,200,000 stamps
- Location: Artur Sikora’s Collection
Postage stamp no 2109 from the series „Exploring Outer Space”
- Creator: Zbigniew Stasik
- Date: 20 June 1973
- Description: Postage stamp showing the American astronomical observatory Copernicus. The tab features an image of Copernicus with an astrolabe. Print run of 2,499,996 stamps and 416,666 ‘tabs’ with an image of Copernicus
- Location: Artur Sikora’s Collection
Postage stamp no 2126 from the series „Day of the Postage Stamp”
- Creator: Andrzej Heidrich
- Date: 27 September 1973
- Description: Postage stamp showing an image of Nicolaus Copernicus after a painting by Marcel Bacciarelli. Print run of 4,155,000 stamps
- Location: Ewa Sikora’s Collection
Postage stamp no 3224 from the series „World Exhibition EXPO‘92 in Seville”
- Creator: Janusz Wysocki
- Date: 3 May 1992
- Description: Postage stamp showing Copernicus’ portrait and a facsimile of Nicolaus Copernicus’ signature with the sun in the background. Print run of 2,085,000 stamps
- Location: Artur Sikora’s Collection
Postage stamp no 3303 from the series „450th Anniversary of Copernicus’ Death”
- Creator: J. Konarzewski
- Date: 24 May 1993
- Description: Postage stamp showing a portrait of Copernicus and a drawing of the Solar System. Print run of 1,650,000 stamps
- Location: Artur Sikora’s Collection
Postage stamp no 3339 from the series „Europa CEPT (V)”
- Creator: Tomasz Bogusławski
- Date: 30 April 1994
- Description: Postage stamp no 3339 from the series Europa CEPT (V) – discoveries by Ignacy Łukasiewicz and Nicolaus Copernicus showing a stylised globe and Nicolaus Copernicus in profile. Print run of 416,666 stamps
- Location: Artur Sikora’s Collection
Postage stamp no 3865 from the series „Polish Cities”
- Creator: Andrzej Gosik
- Date: 31 January 2003
- Description: Postage stamp no 3865 from the series ‘Polish Cities’ showing such places of historical interest in Toruń as the statue of Nicolaus Copernicus and the gothic Old Town Hall
- Location: Artur Sikora’s Collection
Postage stamp no 560 issued on the occasion of the 1st Congress of Polish Science
- Creator: Bogusław Brandt
- Date: 1951
- Description: On the stamp – portrait of Copernicus after a painting by Jan Matejko
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Postage stamp no 765 from the series „Monuments of Warsaw”
- Creator: Edmund John, Czesław Słania
- Date: 1955
- Description: Postage stamp featuring the Warsaw Statue of Nicolaus Copernicus
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Postage stamp no 993 from the series „Great Men of Science”
- Creator: Czesław Chludziński, Stanisław Łukaszewski
- Date: 10 December 1959
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Postage stamp series „500th Anniversary of Copernicus’ Birth”
- Creator: Waldemar Andrzejewski
- Date: 28 September 1972
- Description: Stamp no 2043: portrait of Copernicus after an engraving by Jacob van Meurs (ca 1654) and a drawing of the heliocentric pattern, print run: 7,863,000, stamp value: 40 grosz; stamp no 2044: portrait of Copernicus after an aquatint etching from the end of the 16th c. and a reverse side of a six-grosz crown coin from ca 1630, stamp value: 60 grosz, print run: 7,679,010; stamp no 2045: portrait of Copernicus after an engraving by Jeremiah Flack from ca 1645 and the coat-of-arms of Royal Prussia from the Stągiewna Gate in Gdańsk from ca 1520, stamp value: 2.50 zloty, print run: 997,020; stamp no 2046: portrait of Copernicus with a lily-of-the-valley after a wood engraving by Tobias Stimmer and a passage from Copernicus’ translation of Theophylact Simocatta’s Letters from ca 1509, stamp value: 3.40 zloty, print run: 997,020
- Location: Artur Sikora’s Collection
Postage stamp series issued to commemorate the 500th Anniversary of Copernicus’ Birth
- Date: 1973
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Postage stamp sheet ark2109 from the series „Exploring Outer Space– Salyut, Copernicus”
- Creator: Zbigniew Stasik
- Date: 20 June 1973
- Description: Postage stamp sheet showing the American astronomical observatory Copernicus. The tab features an image of Copernicus with an astrolabe. Print run of 416,666 stamps
- Location: Artur Sikora’s Collection

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