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United Arab Emirates

Listed on this page are national issues for the whole of the United Arab Emirates since independence was gained in 1971.  Earlier issues are listed under the territory's pre-independence name Trucial States.  See also the separate listings for Abu Dhabi and Dubai, the only two of the seven Emirates to have issued revenues in their own name.  See below for a possible revenue stamp of Ajman.


Chapter overview
  • Medical Fee (catalogue numbers prefixed F)
  • Revenue (catalogue numbers prefixed R)
  • Revenue usage of Postage stamps (catalogue numbers prefixed P)


Currency
  • (1973) 100 fils = 1 dirham (dh)

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PictureAjman revenue adhesive (status uncertain)
Ajman

The stamp illustrated here, inscribed Ajman Revenue, was offered on eBay in September 2018.  To date this is the only recorded example of this stamp, and no other revenues of Ajman are known.

​I have not been able to examine this stamp myself and am therefore unable to verity its authenticity.  I would be very keen to hear from any reader who has further information.


Medical Fee

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M1/3 and M6
1984-88.  Arms of United Arab Emirates inscribed Revenue Stamp in English and Arabic at sides and Medical Fee below coat of arms.  No watermark.  Arms in red and gold (M1/3) or pink and gold (M6), inscriptions at top and bottom in black.  Background colours given.

a) September 1984 (earliest recorded usage).  22½ x 27½ mm, perf 14½.  No security perfin.

  M1. 10dh rose-pink
  M2. 20dh violet
  M3. 25dh pale olive


b) 1987 (earliest recorded usage).  22 x 27½ mm, perf 14¼.  Security perfin UAE horizontally and vertically.

  M6. 10dh rose-pink

Revenue

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R1/6
c1973 (according to Barefoot).  Dhow, palm tree, oil rig and camels, plus map and symbols of the United Arab Emirates.  27 x 32 mm.  Perf 13½.  No watermark.

 

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R3a
  R1. 50f olive-green
  R2. 1dh sepia
  R3. 5dh red
    a. Perf 12 x 13
  R4. 10dh blue-green
  R5. 50dh mauve
  R6. 100dh slate-blue

Note: Barefoot also lists a 200dh, but I have not seen this.



1975-92.  Arms of United Arab Emirates similar to M1/6 above but without Medical Fee inscription.  No watermark.  Arms in red and gold, inscriptions at top and bottom in black.  Background colours given.


a) 1974 (earliest recorded usage).  22½ x 27½ mm.  Perf 14½.  No security perfin.

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R11/17 (22½ x 27½ mm issue without security perfin)


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Earliest recorded usage: R12/13 used in 1974
  R11. 2½dh blue
  R12. 5dh brown-orange
  R13. 10dh turquoise-blue
  R14. 20dh deep olive-brown
  R15. 50dh purple
  R16. 60dh rose-lilac
  R17. 100dh red-brown



Note: forgeries exist of the 20dh and 50dh, rough perf 11 and with the design crudely drawn, as shown here.
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b) 1988 (earliest recorded usage).  22 x 27½ mm.  Perf 14¼ (18 perfs at top at bottom, 22 perfs at sides).  Security perfin UAE horizontally and vertically.
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R21/30


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Earliest recorded usage: 60dh used in 1989
  R21. 10dh turquoise-blue
  R22. 15dh orange-yellow
  R23. 20dh deep brown

  R24. 30dh dull violet
  R25. 50dh reddish violet
  R26. 60dh pale dull rose
  R27. 100dh chestnut
  R28. 200dh yellow-green
  R29. 300dh pale grey-blue
  R30. 500dh claret



c)
1992 (earliest recorded usage).  23½ x 29 mm.  Perf 14 (19 perfs at top at bottom, 23 perfs at sides).  Security perfin UAE horizontally and vertically.

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R31/42

 

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Earliest recorded usage: 100dh in 1992
  R31. 10dh turquoise-blue
  R32. 15dh orange-yellow
  R33. 20dh deep brown
  R34. 40dh deep pink
  R35. 50dh pale violet
  R36. 60dh pale rose
  R37. 80dh deep bright blue
  R38. 100dh red-brown
  R39. 200dh yellow-green
  R40. 300dh pale grey-blue

  R41. 500dh claret
  R42. 1000dh deep blue-green

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R51/55 (no better image currently available for R55)
February 2014 (earliest recorded usage).  New type featuring the revised UAE coat of arms (adopted in 2008) and inscribed Ministry of Finance in English and Arabic at sides.  23 x 28½ mm.  Perf 13½ x 14.  No watermark.  Security perfin UAE horizontally and vertically, and security background printing REVENUE STAMP in English and Arabic in diagonal lines.  Arms multi-coloured, inscriptions in black.  Background colours given.
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​  R51. 50dh rose-violet
​  R52. 100dh chestnut
​  R55. 1000dh deep blue-green

Revenue usage of Postage stamps

The stamps listed here are those recorded as having been used for revenue purposes, and are found with passport and immigration cancels.


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1972.  Provisional issue.  Abu Dhabi pictorials of 1970-71 overprinted UAE in English and Arabic.

   P11. 500f multicoloured
   P12. 1d multicoloured


Note: this issue is listed under Abu Dhabi in the Gibbons catalogue of postage stamps.

 

 

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1973.  Pictorial issue inscribed United Arab Emirates.
46 x 30 mm.  Perf 14 x 14½.  No watermark.

   P22. 10d multicoloured


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