On 12 May 2023 the Magistral Post Office (situated inside the Magistral Palace in Rome, entrance from Via delle Carrozze 79) will use the special postmark to celebrate the National Philatelic Exhibition APPIIPHIL 2023, to be held at the Piana delle Orme Museum in Latina from 12 to 14 May 2023.

Designed by Giancarlo Federico, it reproduces a view of the Via Appia Antica, one of the greatest civil engineering works of the ancient world built between the end of the 4th and 3rd centuries BC to connect Rome with Brundisium and considered by the Romans as the regina viarum.

The postmark is completed by the inscriptions “SOVRANO MILITARE ORDINE DI MALTA” and “POSTE MAGISTRALI”, the legend “APPIIPHIL 2023” and the date “12.V.2023”.

Items for reposting, individually franked by the sender with stamps belonging to the relevant set, must reach Poste Magistrali by 12 July 2023. A suitable self-addressed envelope, bearing Order of Malta stamps corresponding to the ordinary (Posta4) or priority (Posta1) mail  rate in force in Italy, must be enclosed for the postmarked items to be returned under cover. For return by registered mail, please contact Poste Magistrali in advance.

Items to be returned uncovered must reach Poste Magistrali by 26 May 2023 and must be individually marked “Corrispondenza filatelica” (Philatelic correspondence) on the address side in indelible ink. In case of missing, it will be automatically applied by Poste Magistrali.