After 14 years with the same series of stamps for daily use, the stamps, with the portrait of the king, were exchanged by a new series with the portrait used for the kings 60th birthday.

The the first values of the new series entered the scene in 1961

In 1962 it was the first time the Danish stamps got a value with both Krone and Øre.

Commerative Stamps

In 1962 the Czechoslovakian refugee, Cz. Slania is beginning to engrave stamps in Sweden and Denmark. The 2nd he has engraved for Denmark was a stamp issued to collect aid to developing countries.

The founder of Tivoli in Copenhagen, Georg Carstensen was remembered by a stamp issued because of his 150 years birthday.

A pretty stamp showing a part from Funen was issued because The Danish nature conservancy association was founded 50 years ago. The stamp was a kind of a forerunner of a series of stamps issued to remind people about Danish preservation.