There is an expression that says that appetite comes with eating, this is very wise, especially for those who have no appetite, for example, due to illness. You need to force yourself to eat in order to restore your strength and, at some point, your appetite will return to you.
The more I think about postage stamps, about traveling in their world, the more I see the delights of the world that surrounds us, and when I think about the real world, I want to think more about postage stamps.
For example, a couple of days ago, I was walking through the sleeping quarters of our city and saw a thin but tall sea buckthorn tree, the crown of which was strewn with yellow berries.
It's a big harvest, but people couldn't harvest it, it was too dangerous.
In addition, the branches of sea buckthorn are very prickly.
But when the berries are in an accessible place, this does not stop people. This berry has medicinal properties and is delicious in jam.
Medicinal sea buckthorn oil is extracted from the seed of sea buckthorn, which is very highly valued in medicine.
At that moment, I knew that on the next postage stamp from the Protected Trees and Shrubst series of postage stamps, issued in 1980 in the USSR, we would see Sea Buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides).
This find turns my story into something that is more than two-dimensional, and when you consider that I have a coin, an authentic USSR 10 kopeck coin, which is older than a postage stamp, the story becomes three-dimensional.
You can see the obverse and reverse of this coin. That's how much money my mother gave me when I wanted to get to the morning session at the cinema.
If you wanted to make a phone call in a payphone, the cost of which was 2 kopecks, in case you didn’t have two kopecks, you could use this coin, it was suitable in size and weight, but. it was a waste, lol.
Postage stamp edition. which you will see below is 6,100,000 copies and it looks like a harvest of sea buckthorn.
Information about this postage stamp:
Country: USSR.
Subject: # Flora, # Trees, # USSR.
Series: Protected Trees and Shrubs.
Name: Sea Buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 10 USSR kopek.
Michel's USSR catalog code: 5005.
Episode release date: October 29, 1980.
Perforation: comb 12¼ х 12.
Postage stamp size: 42 x 30 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: 6,100,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.14 - $ 0.22.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.04 - $ 0.13.
Photo: original from 
Clean postage stamp
To be continued!
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