Gee! Less than 1,200 left in the wild...Gee's Golden Langur (Trachypithecus geei), or simply the GOLDEN LANGUR. WWF maxicards from BHUTAN

"Gee's golden langur (Trachypithecus geei), or simply the golden langur, is an Old World monkey found in a small region of western Assam, India and in the neighboring foothills of the Black Mountains of Bhutan.^[3] It is one of the most endangered primate species of India.^[3] Long considered sacred by many Himalayan peoples, the Golden Langur was first brought to the attention of science by the naturalist E. P. Gee in the 1950s."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gee%27s_golden_langur

Kingdom of Bhutan འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ 'Brug Rgyal-khab (Wylie) Dru Gäkhap
Flag Emblem
Anthem: Druk Tsendhen
Capital		Thimphu
Official language(s)		Dzongkha
Demonym		Bhutanese
Government		Constitutional democratic monarchy
-	King	Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
-	Prime Minister	Jigme Y. Thinley
Formation		Early 17th century
-	Wangchuk Dynasty	17 December 1907
-	Constitutional Monarchy	2007

"Bhutan (ⁱ/buːˈtɑːn/; Dzongkha: འབྲུག་ཡུལ་; Wylie: 'druk yul; Tibetan pinyin: Zhugyü;Nepali: भूटान, officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked state in South Asia, located at the eastern end of the Himalayas and bordered to the south, east and west by the Republic of India and to the north by the People's Republic of China. 

Bhutan is separated from the nearby country of Nepal to the west by the Indian state of Sikkim, and from Bangladesh to the south by West Bengal.

Bhutan existed as a patchwork of minor warring fiefdoms until the early 17th century, when the area was unified by the Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal, who was guided by a prophecy^{[citation needed]}, fled religious persecution in Tibet and cultivated a separate Bhutanese identity. 

In the early 20th century, Bhutan came into contact with the British Empire, after which Bhutan continued strong bilateral relation with India upon its independence. 

In 2006, Business Week magazine rated Bhutan the happiest country in Asia and the eighth-happiest in the world, based on a global survey."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Taktshang.jpg

                                        The Taktshang Monastery, also known as the "Tiger's Nest". 

Bhutan is a predominantly Buddhist country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhutan

Look at the maximum card at the top of this blogpost, from the Lower-Left side of the set of 4.

The denomination is 1 NU (Ngultrum).

What color is that background on the stamp? Pink? Purple?

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