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Because of increasing of the postal rates a few stamps with the portrait of king Frederik IX were issued.

Commerative Stamps

In 1963 it was 50 years ago the Dane Niels Bohr made a theory about the atoms - the event was celebrated by issuing stamps both in Denmark and in Greenland with the portrait of the professor.

Samuel Petrus Kleinschmidt was born in Greenland 1814. He was the founder of the way to write the language of the Grenlandic people.

During 1966 - 1969 3 beautiful stamps were illustrating legends from Greenland.

The crownprincess could celebrate, she was getting married and a stamp showing the silhouettes of her and her husband count Henri was issued in 1967.

Two greenlandic children are wandering up in the Roundtower in Copenhagen. The stamp has a surplus for helping children in Greenland.

In 1969 the king had his 70th birthday and the last stamp showing King Frederik 9. while he was king of Denmark and Greenland was issued.

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