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The 2¢ Landing of Columbus is the most common stamp of the Columbian Issue. The Columbian Issue, also known as the Columbians, is a set of 16 postage stamps issued by the United States to commemorate the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago during 1893.
The 5-cent stamp paid for a letter weighing less than 1/2 ounce and traveling up to 300 miles, the 10-cent stamp for deliveries to locations greater than 300 miles, or, twice the weight deliverable for the 5-cent stamp. Each stamp was hand engraved in what is believed to be steel, and laid out in sheets of 200 stamps.
Christopher Columbus, a globe, and ships Half of a ship and half of the U.S. Space Shuttle Discovery: Ag 90%, Cu 10% Authorized: 4,000,000 (max) Uncirculated: 106,949 D Proof: 385,241 P 1992 – 1993 $5: Christopher Columbus Quincentenary half eagle [13] Christopher Columbus facing a map of the Americas Coat of arms of Christopher Columbus
However, this legislation was set to expire in April 2016. As a result, the Post Office retained one cent of the price change as a previously allotted adjustment for inflation, but the price of a first-class stamp became 47 cents: for the first time in 97 years (and for the fourth time in the agency's history) the price of a stamp decreased. [32]
Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1906. (ed., Different version available) Young, Alexander Bell Filson, Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery; a Narrative, with a Note on the Navigation of Columbus's First Voyage by the Earl of Dunraven, v. 2.
The first portrait of a woman on a US postage stamp. 8-cent Martha Washington Stamp, Issued 1902 The first stamp featuring an American women. [2] The history of women on US stamps begins in 1893, when Queen Isabella became the first woman on a US stamp. [3] Queen Isabella helped support Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage, and 1893 marked the ...
The United States 15-cent black stamp of 1866 depicts Abraham Lincoln and was the first stamp issued after his assassination in 1865, but it was not officially declared as a memorial to him. [5] The U.S. also issued a 5-cent stamp in 1882 showing the recently assassinated President James A. Garfield.
The 1869 Pictorial Issue is a series of definitive United States postage stamps released during the first weeks of the Grant administration. Ten types of stamp in denominations between one cent and ninety cents were initially offered in the series, with eight of these introduced on March 19 and 20, 1869 and the two greatest values being distributed somewhat later. [1]