Few specimens exist today, and none have been up for auction since the last one sold for upward of $400,000. The 1851 12d Black Empress is far from the rarest Canadian stamp, but it still commands ...

sell and trade postage stamps for fun and have seen the value of their stamp collections drop in recent years. At the same time, the value of individual rare stamps has climbed and the search for ...

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once famously featured in an episode of the Simpsons A rare US postage stamp has sold for $2m (£1.63m) in a New York auction, setting the record for the most expensive single US stamp sold.

An ultra-rare stamp depicting an inverted Jenny airplane has been sold for a record $2 million at a New York auction, making it the most expensive U.S. stamp ever sold. A 76-year-old New York man ...

The Ball Cover with Mauritius 1red is a unique and historic cover that bears the first two stamps of Mauritius, issued in 1847. It was sold for $11.94 million in 2021 ...

The coins came from an uncirculated proof set of six coins sold in 1975 for $7. The coins should have had the “S” on them but ...

Your jar of change could potentially be worth thousands of euros if you happen to have one of these particularly rare copper ...

AN Edward III gold Noble coin is being sold at a Dorset auction later this month. About 680 years old (circa 1344 to 1346), the coin was minted in the reign of King Edward III, although it is a ...

and the block sold for $18.8 million in 2009. They rank among the extremely precious stamps that exist. The rarest of stamp finds in the world would be the Mauritius 1red cover featuring the very ...

the “S” stamp that marks where it was minted. It was one of two that did not have the letter. The coins came from an uncirculated proof set of six coins sold in 1975 for $7. The coins should ...