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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 163610, member: 56&quot;]According to Wikipedia, the stamp has a bit of history as well:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_the_United_States" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_the_United_States</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The full series included a 1¢ profile of Franklin in blue, a 3¢ profile of Washington in red brown, a 5¢ portrait of Thomas Jefferson, and portraits of Washington for 10¢ green and 12¢ black values. <b>The 1¢ stamp achieved notoriety, at least among philatelists, because production problems (the stamp design was too tall for the space provided) led to a welter of plate modifications done in piecemeal fashion, and there are no fewer than seven major varieties,</b> ranging in price from $100 to $200,000 (the latter for the only stamp of the 200 images on the first plate that displays the design&#039;s top and bottom ornamentation complete).</p><p><br /></p><p>(I suspect the prices mentioned would refer to unused examples)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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