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2. List of most expensive philatelic items - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of the highest known prices paid for philatelic items, including stamps and covers. The current record price for a single stamp is US$9,480,000 paid for the British Guiana 1c magenta. [1] [2] This list is ordered by consumer price index inflation-adjusted value (in bold) in millions of United States dollars in 2023.

3. Postage stamps and postal history of Germany - Wikipedia

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   Bavaria Scott #1, the first German stamp, 1849. This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Germany and philatelically related areas. The main modern providers of service were the Reichspost (1871–1945), the Deutsche Post under Allied control (1945–1949), the Deutsche Post of the GDR (1949–1990), the Deutsche Bundespost (1949–1995), along with the Deutsche Bundespost ...

4. Hyperinflation - Wikipedia

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   The highest value was in March 1990, when the government inflation index reached 82.39%. Hyperinflation ended in July 1994 with the Real Plan during the government of Itamar Franco. [ 48 ] During the period of inflation Brazil adopted a total of six different currencies, as the government constantly changed due to rapid devaluation and increase ...

5. Check Your Attic: These Stamps Are Worth Millions - AOL

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   1856 British Guiana One-Cent Magenta. $9.48 million. Known to philatelists as the "Mona Lisa of stamps," the British Guiana One-Cent Magenta is the world's most famous rare stamp.

6. Philatelic investment - Wikipedia

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   The British Guiana 1c magenta is one of the rarest, and most valuable, stamps in the world. Sold in June 2014 at Sotheby's for $9.48 million. Philatelic investment is investment in collectible postage stamps for the purpose of realizing a profit. Philatelic investment was popular during the 1970s but then fell out of favour following a ...

7. Overprint - Wikipedia

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   Stamps have occasionally been overprinted multiple times. A famous example of repeated surcharging happened during the German hyperinflation of 1921–1923. Prices rose so fast and dramatically that postage stamps which cost five or ten pfennigs in 1920 were overprinted for sale in the values of thousands, millions, and eventually billions of ...

8. Notgeld - Wikipedia

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   Notgeld for 10 million Mark from Trier, Germany (1923), view of Trier. Design by Fritz Quant, after a copperplate print by Matthäus Merian (1646) In 1922, due to uncontrolled printing of money, inflation started to get out of control in Germany, culminating in hyperinflation. Throughout the year, the value of the mark deteriorated faster and ...

9. Postage stamps and postal history of the German colonies

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   German stamps were first used in German Togo on March 1, 1888, in the form of vorläufer stamps that can be recognized by the "Klein-Popo" and "Lome" cancellation marks. [13] In 1897, 1900 German stamps with "Togo" overprint became available. In November 1900, the yacht issue was introduced. It was replaced in 1909 with the water-marked issues.