Mutawakelite Kingdom of Yemen

In September 1962, the kingdom of Yemen was overthrown in a coup. This ignited a civil war. While some earlier issues do carry the name of the Mutawakilite Dynasty in French or English, the issues here are those of the royal government and forces from 1962 until 1970.  File:Yemen 64 olympics.jpg|From the 1965 Summer Olympics set. File:Mut Yemen Vermeer.jpg|From the 1967 paintings issue. 
 * Beginning in November of that year, various older Yemen issues were bilingually overprinted. The English part reads FREE YEMEN FIGHTS FOR GOD, IMAM, COUNTRY.
 * In 1963, the first separate royalist issue was released, inscribed MUTAWAKILITE KINGDOM OF YEMEN.
 * In 1964 consular revenues were overprinted with arms in a heavy frame.
 * In 1965, a John F. Kennedy set and souvenir sheet were issued, beginning a flood of topical issues. Many also known imperf. Most of the later topicals are normally found CTO.
 * Later that year, they began inscribing their topical issues Yemen. While confusing, their opposition had already begun inscribing their stamps "Yemen Arab Republic" or "YAR".
 * In 1965, several values were overprinted with a boxed bilingual overprint, the English part reading STATE Of YEMEN. There were also three values similary overprinted except with the English part as Provis. Govt. 1966. Neither of these were issued.
 * In 1966, provisional airmail stamps were surcharged bilingually with a frame of stars and the royal arms. The English part read YEMEN / AIR POST.
 * Also in 1966, the overprinted Freedom from Hunger stamps and souvenir sheet were provisionally overprinted bilingually or separately in each language for periodicals.
 * Beginning in 1967, all unsurcharged new issues were inscribed THE MUTAWAKILITE KINGDOM OF YEMEN.
 * The separated issues of the kingdom ended with the end of the civil war.

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