Overprint 1 p on to 60 to on 1 Kopeck 1920.
Civil War. Armenia.

The 3rd issue of Armenia postage stamps. The large monogram.

Continuing inflation in Armenia required an increase in postal and telegraph rates. On October 15, 1919, a report by the Central Committee of postal and telegraph employees demanded a 100% increase in the existing rates for postal and telegraph correspondence. The new tariff, however, was introduced much later, and the payment rates were raised not by 100% but by 800–1000%. The third issue of Armenia postage stamps consisted of an overprint of the second monogram and a new value in rubles on Russian stamps of the 1909–1917 issues, whose stock and range increased significantly through the purchase of postage stamps from private individuals on terms favorable to the postal administration.

Stamps of the third issue were in postal circulation from March 1920 through June 1921 inclusive.

A significant number of provisional issues are connected with the Civil War of 1918–1922. At that time, there was no stable central authority across most of the country; many regions became independent, and due to devastation and war there was substantial inflation. Frequent tariff changes and the inability to supply the postal network with stamps of the required denominations led to periodic revaluations of existing stocks in accordance with instructions from the People’s Commissariat of Posts and Telegraphs of the RSFSR, which did not предусматривать any overprints. However, in some places certain post offices still applied overprints to the revalued stamps offered for sale, or simply wrote on them by hand. All these stamps are characterized by extremely simple overprinting techniques.

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