Smirne (Italian Post Office)
Dates: 1909 - 1911
Currency: 40 paras = 1 piastre
Album: Italian Post Offices in the Turkish Empire
Smyrne (Russian Post Office)
Dates: 1909 - 1910
Currency: 40 paras = 1 piastre
Album: Russian Post Offices in the Turkish Empire
SO 1920
Refer: East Silesia
* Solomon Islands
Dates: 1975 -
Capital: Honiara
Currency: 100 cents = 1 dollar
Includes: British Solomon Islands
* Somalia
Under UN control with Italian administration 1950-60. Became an independent republic in 1960 and was
enlarged by addition of Somaliland Protectorate.
Dates: 1950 -
Capital: Mogadishu
Currency: (1950) 100 centesimi = 1 somalo
(1961) 100 cents = 1 Somali shilling
Somalia (British Administration)
Dates: 1950 only
Currency: 100 cents = 1 shilling
Album: BA/BMA Issues
Somalia (British Military Administration)
BMA Somalia.
Dates: 1948 - 1950
Currency: 100 cents = 1 shilling
Album: BA/BMA Issues
Somalia (British Occupation)
Refer: East Africa Forces
See also: Somalia (British Administration);
Somalia (British Military Administration)
* Somaliland Protectorate
Dates: 1904 - 1960
Capital: Hargeisa
Currency: (1904) 16 annas = 1 rupee
(1951) 100 cents = 1 shilling
Includes: British Somaliland
Soruth (Saurashtra)
Stamps of Soruth (Saurashtra) were at first issued in Junagadh only but later were extended to include the
Saurashtra Union of Jasdan, Morvi, Nawanager, Soruth and Wadhwan. Stamps of the 1929-1949 period were
overprinted SARKARI.
Dates: 1864 - 1949
Capital: Junagadh
Currency: 12 pies = 1 anna; 16 annas = 1 rupee
Album: Indian Native States
Soudan
Refer: Sudan
* South Africa
Dates: 1910 -
Capital: Pretoria
Currency: (1910) 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
(1961) 100 cents = 1 rand
South African Republic
Dates: 1869 - 1902
Capital: Pretoria
Currency: 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
Album: Transvaal
* South African Territories
Includes: Bophutatswana;
Ciskei;
Transkei;
Venda
South Arabian Federation
Dates: 1963 - 1968
Capital: Aden
Currency: (1963) 100 cents = 1 shilling
(1965) 1000 fils = 1 dinar
Album: Aden Protectorate States
* South Australia
Dates: 1855 - 1912
Capital: Adelaide
Currency: 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
See also: Australia
South Bulgaria
Dates: 1885 only
Capital: Plovdiv (Philippopolis)
Currency: 40 paras = 1 piastre
Album: Bulgarian Territories
South China (People's Post)
Dates: 1949 only
Currency: 100 cents = 1 dollar
Album: CPR Regional Issues
South East Saxony (Russian Zone)
Dates: 1945 - 1946
Capital: Dresden
Currency: 100 pfennige = 1 mark
Album: Germany (Allied Occupation)
South Georgia
Dates: 1963 - 1980
Capital: Grytviken
Currency: (1963) 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
(1971) 100 pence = 1 pound
Album: South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands
South Georgia (Falkland Islands Dependencies)
Stamps of Falkland Islands overprinted SOUTH GEORGIA.
Dates: 1944 - 1946
Capital: Grytviken
Currency: 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
Album: Falkland Islands Dependencies
* South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands
A continuation of the South Georgia issues but with the inscription changed to acknowledge the South Sandwich
Islands as part of the same territory. The South Sandwich Islands have never had any permanent inhabitants.
Dates: 1980 -
Capital: Grytviken
Currency: 100 pence = 1 pound
Includes: South Georgia
South Kasai
Dates: 1961 - 1962
Capital: Lusambo
Currency: 100 centimes = 1 franc
Album: Zaire
* South Korea
Dates: 1946 -
Capital: Seoul
Currency: (1946) 100 chon = 1 won
(1953) 100 won = 1 hwan
(1962) 100 chon = 1 won
South Korea (North Korean Occupation)
Dates: 1950 only
Currency: 100 chon = 1 won
Album: North Korea
South Lithuania (Russian Occupation)
Russian forces in Grodno issued Arms types of Russia with an overprint of LIETUVA and a surcharge
in local currency.
Dates: 1919 only
Currency: 100 skatiku = 1 auksinas
Album: Russian Occupation Issues
South Orkneys (Falkland Islands Dependencies)
Dates: 1944 - 1946
Currency: 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
Album: Falkland Islands Dependencies
South Russia
Refer: Russian Civil War Issues
South Shetlands (Falkland Islands Dependencies)
Dates: 1944 - 1946
Currency: 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
Album: Falkland Islands Dependencies
* South Vietnam
Dates: 1955 - 1976
Capital: Saigon
Currency: 100 cents = 1 piastre
See also: National Front for Liberation of South Vietnam;
North Vietnam;
Vietnam
* South West Africa
Dates: 1923 - 1991
Capital: Windhoek
Currency: (1923) 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
(1961) 100 cents = 1 rand
See also: German South West Africa;
Namibia
South West China (People's Post)
Dates: 1949 - 1950
Currency: 100 cents = 1 dollar
Album: CPR Regional Issues
Southern Cameroons
Dates: 1960 - 1961
Capital: Mamfe
Currency: 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
Album: Nigerian Territories
Southern Nigeria
Dates: 1901 - 1914
Capital: Enugu
Currency: 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
Album: Nigerian Territories
Southern Rhodesia
Dates: 1924 - 1964
Capital: Salisbury
Currency: 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
Album: Rhodesia
Southern Yemen
Dates: 1968 - 1971
Capital: Aden
Currency: 1000 fils = 1 dinar
Album: Yemen
Southern Zone, Morocco
Dates: 1956 - 1958
Capital: Rabat
Currency: 100 centimes = 1 franc
Album: Morocco
See also: French Morocco