Quartz (rock crystal) with needles of the metal rutile. This, by Alpine standards, magnificent rutilated quartz was found in 1963 during road-widening work on the Gotthard Pass road in the upper Val Tremola (Ticino).
Fluorite (CHF 4.00)
Octahedral crystal (8 cm side length) of fluorite with a pink core
and a green outer zone. The crystal was found in 1959 by the mineral collectors
Lucas Monn and Tumaisch Curschellas on Piz Blas (Val Nalps, Grisons).
| Issue Date | 9 September 2003 |
| Designs | CHF 3.00: Rutile quartz
CHF 4.00: Green fluorite |
| Designer | SchottMerz, 3000 Berne |
| Stamp size | 33 x 28 mm |
| Perforation | 13¼:13¼ |
| Colour | 4-colour |
| Paper | white stamp paper with fibres |
| Gum | matt gummed |
| Printing | offset |
| Sheet | 20 (5 rows of 4) stamps |
| Sheet size | 194 x 140 mm |
| Printers | Bundesdruckerei, Berlin, Germany |
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