World Cup Victory Stamps of Germany Printed Before Final

A World Cup victory postage stamp will be issued by Germany this week, five million of which were printed before the final was even held, officials said Monday.

"This year I dared to hope very early on that our team would take the title," said Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble.

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The 60-cent stamp, marked "Germany Football World Champion 2014", will go on sale Thursday after the first commemorative copies are presented to the coach, players and team staff.

Graphic designer Lutz Menze told German national news agency DPA that the image shows footballers running, but not their faces in order to honour the whole team, not an individual.

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Menze said that producing a stamp usually takes six months, but that he was only contacted by the government after the tournament had already started.

At a press conference Monday, a journalist asked a finance ministry spokeswoman what would have happened to the print run if Germany had lost.

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The ministry spokeswoman replied simply: "We always firmly believed the German team would win."

She said she did not know how much had been paid to print the stamps but the news conference moderator noted that had the Germans lost, "their value probably would have gone through the roof".

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Source-AFP