Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi, or the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, is a country in the eastern Arabian peninsula. It was not until 1960 that the British postal agency in Eastern Arabia began providing postal service to foreign workers on Abu Dhabi's Das Island. As that mail was handled through Bahrain, it bore Bahrain postmarks and was indistinguishable from Bahraini mail.
 * In March 1963, a British post office was established in Abu Dhabi, using the same stamps as before but now bearing Abu Dhabi postmarks.
 * The emirate issued its own stamps beginning in March 1964, with its postal system still run by the British postal agency until 1967.
 * By October 1966, it changed its currency to fils and dirhams. Several values of the 1964 definitives were surcharged in the new currency.
 * It joined the Trucial States in July 1971.
 * Abu Dhabi released two issues after it had joined the United Arab Emirates in December 1971; the UAE did not issue its own stamps until August of 1972. These were provisional overprints on Abu Dhabi definitives, only used by Abu Dhabi except for two of the values adopted by Fujeira and Sharjah sometime later.

Abu Dhabi also issued several revenue stamps.

 File:Abu Dhabi 10r.jpg|From the 1964 first issue. File:Abu Dhabi 2nd anniv.jpg|1969 35 fils commemorative stamp. 

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