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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. [ note 1 ...
Postal rates to 1847. Initial United States postage rates were set by Congress as part of the Postal Service Act signed into law by President George Washington on February 20, 1792. The postal rate varied according to "distance zone", the distance a letter was to be carried from the post office where it entered the mail to its final destination.
The postal service of Iraq proper began with the British mandate granted by the League of Nations in 1920. The first stamps of Iraq were a definitive series that appeared in 1923; the set of 12 included eight different designs depicting scenes and images from ancient history and the present day. They were denominated in annas and rupees ...
Beginning in 1924, each year at least one stamp was issued in February to commemorate independence, a pattern that held steady, with few omissions, until the 1960s. Parliament House on the 15p of 1939. Afghanistan joined the Universal Postal Union in 1928; previously international mail required stamps of British India.
One stamp was issued on this occasion; Value: 8a; Completion of Warsak Hydroelectric Project – 1 July 1961 One stamp was issued on this occasion; Value: 40p; Child Welfare Week – 2 October 1961; Two stamps were issued on this occasion Values: 13p, 90p Co-operative Day – 4 November 1961 Two stamps were issued on this occasion; Values: 13p, 90p
The United States Postal Service issued a 34-cent stamp on the 1 September 2001 at the annual Islamic Society of North America's convention in Des Plaines, Illinois.It features gold Arabic calligraphy on a lapis background that commemorates two of the most important Muslim festivals: Eid ul-Fitr, marking the end of the month-long fast of Ramadan and Eid al-Adha, at the end of the pilgrimage to ...
Al-Khwarizmi. Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi[ note 1] ( Persian: محمد بن موسى خوارزمی; c. 780 – c. 850 ), often referred to as simply al-Khwarizmi, was a polymath who produced vastly influential Arabic-language works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography. Hailing from Khwarazm, he was appointed as the astronomer and head ...
Stamps were issued for regular postage and for postage due and were overprinted for use as newspaper stamps and for other purposes. 1 Piastre military stamp, 1898, world's first octagonally perforated stamp. In 1898 the Ottoman Empire issued a series of stamps for its armed forces occupying Thessaly during the Greco-Turkish War. [19]