UAR (1958-1971) - NOT ACTIVE

Thank you for the clarification falschung and i agree with the above , but i still do not understand why it is listed as 1969 in S.G ?? 

Your Gibbons catalogue is the "Stamps of the World" simplified catalogue.  They use shortened listings to save space - if you're trying to list every stamp in the world, the catalogue gets real big, so they choose to leave out some information.  My SOTW catalogue is a bit older than yours - mine is dated 2008.  But I assume your newer edition is still mostly the same as mine.  At the front of the catalogue in the "Information for users" section, there is a subsection entitled "Dates of Issue".  "The date given at the head of each issue is that of the appearance of the earliest stamp in the series."  The first stamp in this series was issued in 1969 and that's the only date they will show in the simplified SOTW catalogue, even though some of the other stamps were issued in later years.

Gibbons has many volumes of more detailed catalogues which include more information.  In the case of Egypt, you can find this info in Part 19, Middle East.  This is a catalogue which lists countries like Egypt, Iran, Iraq, etc. in more detail.  Part 19 is also where you would find stamps from Lebanon.  Here is what this series looks like in Part 19 - the info is mostly the same, but it does include the dates you were wondering about.



Ryan