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The 1967 Monaco Racing Car Stamps:

A Philatelic Grand Prix On fifteen small pieces of paper.

The 1967 Monaco racing car stamps (catalog S40606) represent one of those quietly remarkable moments when a very small country decided to tell a very large story. Monaco, which you could walk across in twenty minutes if you weren't distracted by the casinos, chose to commemorate its 25th Grand Prix with a set of eight stamps that somehow managed to capture the entire history of people going fast in cars.

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