- 11/17/2003

Yahoo! Finance

NEW YORK, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Caribbean will only get hotter when a series of international postage stamps depicting 50 years of Playboy's most memorable covers is issued by the island nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. From the unforgettable 1953 cover of Marilyn Monroe to the striking January 2004 Gold Anniversary cover, the best of five decades of Playboy will be represented on six individual $1.50 legal tender stamps.

Playboy, the first magazine ever to be honored on a stamp, joins the company of other international icons who have been immortalized on St. Vincent stamps including Elvis Presley, Princess Diana and John Lennon. The stamps will be issued by the government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines on December 1, 2003, and will be available for purchase through PlayboyStore.com as well as at any St. Vincent and the Grenadines Post Office.

Images of stamps available upon request.

Playboy Enterprises is a brand-driven, international multimedia entertainment company that publishes editions of Playboy magazine around the world; operates Playboy and Spice television networks and distributes programming via home video and DVD globally; licenses the Playboy and Spice trademarks internationally for a range of consumer products and services; and operates Playboy.com, a leading men's lifestyle and entertainment Web site.

The New York-based Inter-Governmental Philatelic Corporation (IGPC), the world's largest postal agency, served as agent for the government of St. Vincent. Since 1957, IGPC has produced annual postage programs for more than 85 nations worldwide.

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