Ossetia

So we find these stamps overprinted Ossetia, or Осетия. We know they are referring to someplace in the Caucasus region of the Russian Federation. But which? Since Ossetia "stamps" are bogus, we may be splitting hairs here, but it might be useful to know what the intent was. While ethnically the same, North Ossetia and South Ossetia had already been separate regions politically for some time.

We've already noted that the stamps supposedly being issued by it are not genuine. At all. Beginning in the early 1990s, old Soviet stamps were surcharged with ОSSETIA that often included various topical images. We have thankfully not seen the flood of topical sheetlets that mostly followed other bogus issues, but we wouldn't be surprised to see them cranked out down the road.  File:Ossetia 15 overprint.png File:Ossetia space.png|This is supposed to be a pair of stamps sharing the same surcharge design. 

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