page_title: Hermes (Greek stamp)
section_title: The printings of the new values : 30 & 60 lepta (1876 & 1877)
hierarchical_section_title: Hermes (Greek stamp) / The "large Hermes head" (1860–1901) / The Athens printings (November 1861 to 1882) / The printings of the new values : 30 & 60 lepta (1876 & 1877)
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: LHH - Tirage de Paris - 60 Lepta
context_page_description: The Greek god Hermes, messenger of the Gods in the Greek mythology, is the representation chosen, in 1860, by the Kingdom of Greece to illustrate its first postal stamps.
  The first type, the "large Hermes head", was issued in October 1861, and stayed in circulation up to 1886, it was then replaced by the second type, the "small Hermes head".
  The "large Hermes head" stamps, have been reissued, overprinted, in 1900 and 1901 in order to mitigate the delay of shipment of the stamps of the third type, the "flying Hermes" by the British printer J. P. Segg & C°.
  In 1902, a fourth type showing Hermes effigy was issued for international "metal payment".
  Finally, in 1912, a fifth type showing various Hermes representations was issued and stayed in circulation up to 1926.
  Starting early 1920s, the subjects used to illustrate the Greek postal stamps are becoming diversified and let down the Hermes effigy.
context_section_description: In 1875, following Greece entrance to the Union Générale des Postes (U.G.P.), ancestor of the Universal Postal Union (U.P.U.), the Greek postal administration launched two new values (30 & 60 Lepta ).
  From the same die used in 1861 to build the typographic plates of the first seven values, Désiré-Albert Barre has created the plates for the 30 lepta (brown) and the 60 lepta (green) necessary for the international mail.
  Unlike the seven first typographic plates realised in 1861 with the "direct striking in the coining press" method, these two new plates have been manufactured, under the supervision of Désiré-Albert Barre, with the "Galvanoplasty-type" method, by the company: Charles-Dierrey, 6 & 12, rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs in Paris.
  These two values have been printed the printer J. Claye & Cie, 7, rue Saint Benoît, in Paris.
  As the Paris printings of 1861, this printing is very fine. These two new values do not have any "control number" on their back.
  Like in 1861, after a first printing of the two values, done in Paris, all the following ones have been done in Athens with the same typographic plates sent from Paris.
  Quantities printed in Paris (1876):
caption: 60 lepta of the Paris printing (1876)
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