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Since his death almost three years ago, there have been myriad honours bestowed upon Leonard Cohen: concert tributes, museum exhibitions, movies, building murals and books. Streets, parks and libraries are also certain to pop up in Cohen’s hometown.

But on Sept. 20 in the Glass Court of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, one of the grandest and rarest honours to be bestowed upon any Canadian, in the arts or otherwise, will be unveiled: not one, but three Canada Post stamps featuring Cohen during different phases of his 60-year career as one of this country’s as well as one of the world’s foremost poet/troubadours.

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It’s probably not a coincidence that the setting for the unveiling overlooks the giant Cohen mural on Crescent St.

The Cohen stamps will be available to the public on Sept. 21. Not entirely a coincidence, either, since Cohen would have turned 85 that day.

The stamps, which will be available in different price denominations, were created by three renowned designers, whose identities like the stamp images themselves will only be revealed at the Sept. 20 launch.