series „500th anniversary of the birth of Nicolaus Copernicus”

Commemorative postage stamp block „500 Aniv. Nacimiento de Nicolas Copernico”
- Date: 1973
- Description: Cuba
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Commemorative postage stamp block „Nicolaus Copernicus 1473–1973”
- Date: 1973
- Description: Issued by the 500th Anniversary of Copernicus' Birth Organising Committee in Australia
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Postage stamp „Nicolaus Copernicus 1473–1973”
- Date: 1973
- Description: Postage stamp issued in the Vatican in 1973
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Postage stamp no 1778 from the series „500th Anniversary of Copernicus’ Birth”
- Creator: Henryk Chyliński, engraved Z. Kowalski
- Date: 26 June 1969
- Description: Postage stamp featuring a portrait of Copernicus based on Tobias Stimmer’s wood engraving. Print run of 7,012,000 stamps
- Location: Artur Sikora's Collection
Postage stamp no 1779 from the series „500th Anniversary of Copernicus’ Birth”
- Date: 26 June 1969
- Description: Postage stamp featuring a portrait of Copernicus based on Jeremiah Falck’s copperplate print and a 15th-century globe. Drawings representing a map of the night sky in the background. Print run of 7,012,000 stamps
- Location: Artur Sikora's Collection
Postage stamp no 1780 from the series „500th Anniversary of Copernicus’ Birth”
- Creator: Henryk Chyliński, engraved Barbara Kowalska
- Date: 26 June 1969
- Description: Postage stamp featuring a portrait of Copernicus based on a painting by Jan Matejko and a drawing of the heliocentric pattern. Print run of 4,154,000 stamps
- Location: Artur Sikora’s Collection
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 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 designed on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Copernicus’ birth
- Creator: Leon Kawecki
- Date: 1973
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Stamp block bl45 from the series „500th Anniversary of Copernicus’ Birth”
- Creator: Waldemar Andrzejewski, engraved Barbara Kowalska
- Date: 28 September 1972
- Description: Stamp block bl45 with an illustration of the Ptolemean and Copernican systems taken from A Cellarius’s L’Harmonica Microcosmica from 1660 and the emblem of the World Philatelic Exhibition 'Poland 73'. Print run of 1,233,000
- Location: Ewa Sikora’s Collection
Stamp block bl46a from the series „500th Anniversary of Copernicus’ Birth”
- Creator: Waldemar Andrzejewski, engraved Edward Konecki
- Date: 19 August 1973
- Description: Stamp block showing a panoramic view of Poznań from 1740 after a drawing by Friedrich Bernhard Werner and an emblem of the World Philatelic Exhibition 'Poland 73'. Print run of 1,200,000 stamps
- Location: Ewa Sikora’s Collection

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