Austro-Hungarian Levant Post: Emperor Franz Joseph I, 1 Piaster/25 Heller (1900)

Austro-Hungarian Empire · 1900 · 1 Piaster / 25 Heller

The stamp features a right-facing profile portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph I within an ornate oval frame. It is denominated '1 PIASTER' and '25 HELLER' and marked 'K. U. K. POST'.

Issued by the Austro-Hungarian Empire for its post offices in the Ottoman Empire, this stamp reflects the empire's influence in the Levant. This particular example was used in Preveza, then an Ottoman city, and bears a 1901 postmark.