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dimbear

(6,271 posts)
1. That depends on how much you trust that Rome won't let a few more of them out.
Sat Oct 12, 2013, 11:52 PM
Oct 2013

Wouldn't be the first time a collectible was stepped on.

 

Egnever

(21,506 posts)
2. I was assuming the embarrassment alone would prevent them from doing so
Sat Oct 12, 2013, 11:55 PM
Oct 2013

You raise a point i hadnt thought of. Still i would love to get my hands on one. I am sure they are way beyond my financial reach already.

JHB

(37,160 posts)
8. You should see him with his shirt off...
Sun Oct 13, 2013, 12:17 AM
Oct 2013

When he flexes his pecs, his Ronald Reagan tattoo knocks down the Berlin Wall.

longship

(40,416 posts)
4. There's always the "Inverted Jenny"
Sat Oct 12, 2013, 11:59 PM
Oct 2013

A US postage stamp from the early days of airmail. Printed with the airplane upside-down.



Worth a chunk of money.

 

Egnever

(21,506 posts)
7. Yea i remember a story about one of those a few years back
Sun Oct 13, 2013, 12:15 AM
Oct 2013

didn't someone mail one of those back like ten years ago?

BTW

The Italian Minting Institute made about 6,000 “Lesus” medals and retrieved all but three or four, according to media reports.


Three or four people out there hit the lottery.

 

Egnever

(21,506 posts)
9. found the story of the mailing
Sun Oct 13, 2013, 12:20 AM
Oct 2013

Yay wikipedia

In November 2006, election workers in Broward County, Florida claimed to have found an Inverted Jenny affixed to an absentee ballot envelope. The sender did not include any identification with the ballot, which meant the ballot was disqualified.[10]
In a review of a digital photograph of this stamp, Peter Mastrangelo, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania-based American Philatelic Society said "It is our opinion, from what we've seen, that this stamp is questionable, and we are of the opinion at this point that it appears to be a reproduction". He said an in-person review was needed to be sure, but that all indications are that the stamp is a counterfeit. "The perforations on top and bottom do not match our reference copies." Mastrangelo said. "The colors of the blue ink are consistent with the counterfeit."[11]


The counterfeit inverted Jenny affixed to the absentee ballot envelope
On November 13, 2006, an elderly Sarasota, Florida man contacted SNN News 6, claiming to be the man who mailed the ballot. Dan Jacoby says the stamp he used is a commemorative stamp that is worth about 50 cents.[12][clarification needed]
On December 4, 2006, it was confirmed that this stamp used on the ballot was a counterfeit.[13] Inside the Broward County Elections Office in Florida, experts studied the stamp and decided that the method used to print it and the perforations along the sides were evidence that the stamp was fake

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