Guernsey Post issues cyberstamps July 16

By Linn’s Staff

Guernsey Post showcases the Royal Golden Guernsey Goat with a July 16 issue featuring two physical stamps along with their digital twins.

“Guernsey Post is excited to unveil the world’s first cyberstamps, which combine the heritage of Guernsey’s physical postage stamps with secure digital innovation, marking a new era in stamp collecting,” Guernsey Post said in a July 2 press release.

An illustration of a Royal Golden Guernsey Goat, either a billy goat or nanny goat, appears on each of the two £5 cyberstamps, which Guernsey Post calls “a limited-edition physical postage stamp paired with a digital collectible.”

Guernsey Post offers a cyberstamp package for each of the two designs. The cyberstamps can be scanned with a smartphone to activate a unique digital goat with randomly assigned traits that determine the goat’s rarity.

Each of the two cyberstamps are available on a sheet the size and shape of a trading card. The physical stamp can be removed for use on mail. The postage stamps are also available together on a souvenir sheet of two.

The July 16 cyberstamp issue comes after Guernsey Post canceled a planned crypto stamp issue in the fall of 2024 (Linn’s, Nov. 11, 2024, page 15) due to concerns that the £10 Guernsey Goat crypto stamps did not meet the requirements of a 2022 law.

As reported in the Sept. 30, 2024, issue of Linn’s (page 4), the stamp would not have been eligible for use in mailing.

At the time, Guernsey Post chief executive Boley Smillie said: “Our proposed crypto stamps have been considered to be a virtual asset by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission and that means they would be unlikely to licence Guernsey Post for the sale of this type of product.”

The June 16 issue date of the Royal Golden Guernsey Goat cyberstamps comes a year after King Charles III and Queen Camilla granted a royal title to the rare Golden Guernsey goat breed, which is now formally known as Royal Golden Guernsey Goat.

The stamps are available online at www.guernseystamps.com/The-Royal-Golden-Guernsey-Goat. More information about Guernsey’s cyberstamps can be found online at www.guernseycyberstamps.com.

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