Millennium stamp

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The Millennium Stamp, featuring Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor on the background at the drums.

This article is about a general series of stamps released in 1999. For the 2000 collection of stamps featuring projects funded by the Millennium Commission, click here.

The Millennium Stamps were a series of Royal Mail stamps issued in 1999. The stamps were classified into 12 groups (known as "tales") including Entertainment, Science & Technology and Sport, with one group released in each month of 1999.

One of the most notable stamps in the collection was one commemorating the life of (avid stamp collector) Freddie Mercury. It caused controversy for the appearance of Roger Taylor in the background, as it is an understood rule that the only living people allowed to appear on British stamps could be members of the British Royal Family.

Other stamps featured; English football hero Bobby Moore, a picture of the structure of DNA and a fossil of Archaeopteryx, the first known bird.

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