This stamp set if one of my favorite Sri Lanka stamps sets and probably the most favorite one. Issued in 1983 for NARA, National Aquatic Research Agency it has four stamps shows Bottlenose Dolphin, Dugong, Humpback Whale and Sperm Whale. Except for the Rs. 2.00 stamps rest of the stamps are very uncommon and hard to find, Specially the 50 cent one and Rs. 10 one. 50 cent one is not an expensive stamp it's Stanley Gibbons catalog price is 50 Pence for Mint and 20 pence for canceled but you can't often in stamps sales. Catalog price of Rs. 10 is 7 Pounds for Mint and 10 Pounds for used again you can't find these easily. Local prices are around Rs. 50 for the 50 cent stamp and Rs. 200-500 for Rs.10 stamp.
I had the Rs. 2 stamp for a long time I liked it from the first day. Even now it's one of common stamps which you can buy for around Rs.20 (used). Rs. 10 stamp is so rare not many have seen it apart from serious stamp collectors here. I found Marine Mammals Stamps First day at shop which's selling stamps and coins. That was back in 2003 I think. Then after few years I grabbed a Rs. 10 stamp from a local stamp sale for just Rs. 200 ($2) and after that I hadn't seen it for long time. Few weeks back I bought another 2 first day covers of it but not so good as the one I bought years ago.
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