This is the world's FIRST Snake Zodiac stamps 

issued by the Japan Post on January 1965.  

A souvenir sheet with a block of four 5 yen 

stamps depicting a straw snake to ward 

off devil spirits.

Snake Zodiac souvenir sheets/stamps 

issued in 2001

There are about 3,000 species of snakes 

with few hundred are featured on postage 

stamps from worldwide countries.