CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR HONORED WITH STAMP
VIENNA, Austria - 08/02/04 - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has been honored with a new postage stamp issued in his native Austria.
More than 600,000 new postage stamps featuring a likeness of the governor went on sale last Friday - his 57th birthday - and the postal service said it was bracing for heavy demand.
E-mail requests for the $1.20 stamp have reportedly flooded the nation's postal headquarters in Vienna, according to a spokesman for the Austrian Postal Service.
The stamp features an image of Schwarzenegger in a dark suit and tie superimposed over the American and Austrian flags. The text reads simply: "Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger."
The actor-turned-politician was born on July 30, 1947 in the village of Thal, outside the southern Austrian city of Graz. He collected stamps himself as a boy, the postal service noted proudly.
The Schwarzenegger stamp is part of a collectors' series called "Austrians Living Abroad."
About 75,000 of the new stamps have been set aside for Austrian and foreign collectors, but the rest were fair game for public sale. The stamps were trading on e-Bay for $2 apiece, well under the $9.99 offers that circulated two weeks ago, when the postal service first announced their release.
Schwarzenegger, now a naturalized US citizen, emigrated to the US in 1968 to pursue his career as a bodybuilder and movie star.
He made his first visit to Austria as California governor earlier last month, representing the US at the state funeral of President Thomas Klestil.
Schwarzenegger also met privately with Simon Wiesenthal, the Austrian Holocaust survivor famous for his hunt of Nazi war criminals.
The California Republican governor is immensely popular in his home country, where a sports stadium in Graz bears his name.
Most Austrians refer to him affectionately as "Arnie."
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