The world's most valuable stamps revealed
Daniel Coughlin
15 September 2021
Amazingly valuable stamps
Robert A. Siegel
Bermuda 1848 1d Perot Provisional – $195,000 (£166k)
Stanley Gibbons
UK 1840 Penny Black Die Proof – $195,000 (£166k)
Stanley Gibbons
UK 1882 £1 Brown Lilac – $198,000 (£169k)
Stanley Gibbons
Hong Kong 96¢ Olive Queen Victoria – $206,000 (£176k) each
Paul Fraser Collectibles
UK 1902 1s British Board of Education – $234,000 (£200k)
Stanley Gibbons
Canada 1868 2¢ Large Queen on Laid Paper – $250,000 (£213k)
Government of Canada [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
USA 1869 24¢ Inverted Center Declaration of Independence – $275,000 (£234k)
Filbert
UK 1840 Penny Black Letter – $293,000 (£250k)
Stanley Gibbons
USA 1869 30¢ Inverted Shield, Eagles and Flags – $310,500 (£265k)
Robert A. Siegel
USA 1873 23¢ Lost Continental – $325,000 (£277k)
National Bank Note Company, (2nd printing [die proof] by Bureau of Engraving and Printing)Engraving of Scott modeled after John Coffee’s sculpture (bust) of Scott. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Hong Kong 1941 $2 Inverted Dr Sun Yat-sen – $353,850 (£302k) each
Just Collecting
UK 1840 Penny Black Heath Proof – $384,000 (£328k)
Stanley Gibbons
UK 1840 Penny Black Master Die Proof – £410,000 (£350k)
Stanley Gibbons
China 1953 800Y Blue Military – $428,700 (£366k)
Courtesy Catawiki
China 1897 2¢ Red Maiden in the Green Robe – $444,477 (£379k)
大清郵政 / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
Canada 1851 12d Black Empress – $445,000 (£380k)
Dominion of Canada Post Office [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
UK 1904 6d Edward VII Pale Dull Purple – $469,000 (£400k)
Stanley Gibbons
USA 1851 2¢ Hawaiian Missionary – $619,500 (£529k)
Robert A. Siegel
UK 1863 Penny Red Plate 77 – $645,000 (£550k)
Stanley Gibbons
China 1897 10¢-on-9-Candareen – $770,000 (£657k)
Spink
USA 1867 3¢ George Washington B-grill Rose – $900,000 (£768k)
Robert A. Siegel
USA 1847 5¢ Alexandria 'Blue Boy' Postmaster's Provisional – $1.18 million (£1m)
filoposta/filoposta [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons
Germany 1851 9k Baden Error – $1.5 million (£1.3m)
Post of Baden [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
USA 1918 24¢ Inverted Jenny – $1.6 million (£1.4m)
Bureau of Engraving and Printing [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
China 1968 8f The Whole Country is Red – $2 million (£1.7m)
China Guardian
Mauritius 1847 1 & 2 Penny 'Post Office' – $2 million (£1.7m) each
J.O.Barnard [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
USA 1868 1¢ Benjamin Franklin Z Grill – $3 million (£2.6m)
United States Postal Department Public Domain PD-1923
Sweden 1855 3sk Treskilling Yellow – $3.8 million (£3.2m)
sv:P.A. Sparre (1828-1921) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
China 1897 Small One Dollar Red Revenues – $4.6 million (£3.9m) each
大清郵政 [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
USA 1918 Inverted 24¢ Jenny Plate Block 1918 – $4.9 million (£3.5m)
Sotheby's
British Guiana 1856 1¢ Magenta – $8.3 million (£5.9m)
Joseph Baum and William Dallas printers for local postmaster, E.T.E. Dalton [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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