Ramon Magsaysay Definitive Stamp

Republic of the Philippines · 1957 · 5c

The stamp features a portrait of Ramon Magsaysay, the 7th President of the Philippines, facing right. It is part of a definitive series issued in his honor.

This stamp was issued on August 31, 1957, which would have been President Magsaysay's 50th birthday. He had died tragically in a plane crash earlier that year, in March 1957.