* Spain
Dates: 1850 -
Capital: Madrid
Currency: (1850) 8 cuartos = 1 real
(1866) 80 cuartos = 100 centimos = 1 escudo
(1867) 1000 milesimas = 100 centimos = 80 cuartos = 1 escudo
(1872) 100 centimos = 1 peseta
(2002) 100 cents = 1 euro (€)
See also: Canary Islands
* Spanish Guinea
Dates: 1902 - 1960
Capital: Santa Isabel
Currency: 100 centimos = 1 peseta
Includes: Elobey, Annobon & Corisco;
Fernando Poo;
Rio Muni
Spanish Marianas
Dates: 1898 - 1899
Capital:
Currency: 100 centimos = 1 peseta
Album: Spanish Philippines
See also: Mariana Islands
* Spanish Morocco
Dates: 1914 - 1956
Capital: Tetuan
Currency: 100 centimos = 1 peseta
* Spanish Philippines
Dates: 1854 - 1898
Capital: Manila
Currency: (1854) 20 cuartos = 1 real; 8 reales = 1 peso
(1864) 100 centimos = 1 peso
(1871) 100 centimos = 1 escudo
(1872) 100 centimos = 1 peseta
(1876) 1000 milesimas = 100 centavos = 1 peso
Includes: Spanish Marianas
* Spanish Post Offices Abroad
Includes: Morocco (Spanish Post Offices);
Tangier (Spanish Post Office);
Tetuan (Spanish Post Office)
Spanish Sahara
Dates: 1924 - 1975
Capital: El Aaiun
Currency: 100 centimos = 1 peseta
Album: Spanish West Africa
* Spanish West Africa
The general issue was for use in Ifni and Spanish Sahara.
Dates: 1949 - 1951
Currency: 100 centimos = 1 peseta
Includes: Cape Juby;
Ifni;
La Aguera;
Rio de Oro;
Spanish Sahara
Srba Hrvata Slovena
Refer: Yugoslavia
Sremsko Baranjska Oblast (Croatia)
After Croatia recovered Krajina and Eastern Slavonia from the autonomous republic of Srpska Krajina
in 1995, Eastern Slavonia was placed under UN administration and called Sremsko Baranjska Oblast
(Srem and Baranya Region). Stamps were issued soon afterwards.
Postal administration was transferred back to Croatia on 19 May 1997 and separate issues ceased at that time.
Eastern Slavonia as a whole was incorporated back into the Republic of Croatia on 15 January 1998.
Dates: 1995 - 1997
Capital:
Currency: 100 paras = 1 dinar
Album: Croatia
See also: Srpska Krajina (Croatia)
* Sri Lanka
Dates: 1972 -
Capital: Colombo
Currency: 100 cents = 1 rupee
See also: Ceylon
Srpska
Refer: Bosnian Serb Republic
Srpska Krajina (Croatia)
After Croatia declared itself independent of Yugoslavia in 1991, Croatian Serbs in Krajina, Western
Slavonia and Eastern Slavonia proclaimed their allegiance to Yugoslavia and formed the Republic of
Srpska Krajina under UN protection. Elections for a president and parliament were held in January 1994.
In 1995, the Republic of Croatia began to recover the Serb territories. Krajina and Western Slavonia
were incorporated back into Croatia that year while Eastern Slavonia was placed under UN administration
and called Sremsko Baranjska Oblast (Srem and Baranya Region).
Stamps were issued soon after Srpska Krajina was proclaimed and continued until the Croatian recovery of
Krajina. Later issues were made by Sremsko Baranjska Oblast (q.v.).
Dates: 1993 - 1995
Capital:
Currency: 100 paras = 1 dinar
Album: Croatia
See also: Sremsko Baranjska Oblast (Croatia)
Stadt Post Basel
Refer: Basle
Stampalia
Refer: Astypalaea
Stellaland
A temporary Boer republic was established in Stellaland, which was the area surrounding Vryburg, on 10 January
1883. In 1885 it was annexed by Britain and incorporated into British Bechuanaland on 30 September 1885.
There was one local issue of six stamps on 1 February 1884.
Dates: 1884 - 1885
Capital: Vryburg
Currency: 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
Album: Cape of Good Hope
See also: Vryburg
Stockholm
Dates: 1856 - 1862
Currency: (1855) 48 skilling = 1 riksdaler
(1858) 100 ore = 1 riksdaler
Album: Sweden
* Straits Settlements
Dates: 1867 - 1942
Capital: Singapore
Currency: 100 cents = 1 dollar
Includes: Labuan
Strasbourg
Refer: Council of Europe (Strasbourg)
STT-VUJA/STT-VUJNA
Overprints on Yugoslav stamps issued in Trieste.
Refer: Trieste (Yugoslav Military Government)
* Sudan
Earliest issues were Egyptian stamps overprinted SOUDAN.
Dates: 1897 -
Capital: Khartoum
Currency: 1000 milliemes = 100 piastres = 1 pound
Sudetenland
Refer: Asch (Sudentenland)
Suez Canal Company
During the construction period 1859-69, the company ran a mail service that was taken over by the Egyptian
government in 1868. Some special stamps (unofficial only) were issued in 1868.
Refer: Egypt
Suidafrika
Refer: South Africa
Sumatra (Japanese Occupation)
Dates: 1943 - 1945
Currency: 100 cents = 1 gulden
Album: Japanese Occupation Issues
* Sungei Ujong
Dates: 1878 - 1895
Capital: Serembam
Currency: 100 cents = 1 dollar
See also: Malaysia
Suomi
Refer: Finland
* Surinam/Suriname
Dates: 1873 -
Capital: Paramaribo
Currency: 100 cents = 1 gulden
Sverige
Refer: Sweden
* Swaziland
Dates: 1933 -
Capital: Mbabane
Currency: (1889) 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
(1961) 100 cents = 1 rand
(1974) 100 cents = 1 lilangeni (note: plural is emalangeni)
Includes: Swaziland (Provisional Government)
Swaziland (Provisional Government)
Dates: 1889 - 1894
Capital: Mbabane
Currency: 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
Album: Swaziland
* Sweden
Dates: 1855 -
Capital: Stockholm
Currency: (1855) 48 skilling = 1 riksdaler
(1858) 100 ore = 1 riksdaler
(1875) 100 ore = 1 krona
Includes: Stockholm
Swiss Cantonal Administration
Refer: Basle;
Geneva;
Switzerland;
Zurich
* Swiss Cantonal Issues
Includes: Basle;
Geneva;
Zurich
Swiss PTT
Refer: United Nations (UN)
Swiss Transitional Issues
Refer: Geneva;
Switzerland;
Zurich
* Switzerland
Dates: 1850 -
Capital: Berne
Currency: (1850) 100 rappen = 1 franken
(1862) 100 centimes = 1 franc
See also: Swiss Cantonal Issues
Syme
Italian colony in the Dodecanese which used the general EGEO issues and had its own stamps inscribed
SIMI, the Italian (and Greek) name of the island.
Dates: 1912 - 1932
Capital: Simi
Currency: 100 centesimi = 1 lira
Album: Aegean Islands (Dodecanese)
* Syria
Dates: 1924 -
Capital: Damascus
Currency: 100 centimes = 1 piastre
See also: United Arab Republic (UAR)
Syria (French Occupation)
Issues in both Egyptian and Syrian currency overprinted TEO or OMF.
Dates: 1919 - 1924
Currency: (1919) 40 paras = 10 milliemes = 1 piastre
(1920) 100 centimes = 1 piastre
Album: French Occupation Issues
Szechwan
Dates: 1933 only
Currency: 100 cents = 1 dollar
Album: Chinese Provinces
* Szeged
Dates: 1919 only
Capital: Szeged
Currency: 100 filler = 1 korona
See also: Hungary