The orange-red one-penny and deep blue two-pence Mauritius stamps were the first printed by a colony outside Great Britain. In 1993, a pair sold at a Swiss auction for $6.1 million. Today ...
The first stamps appeared in 1840 in Great Britain. Up until then it was the custom for the recipient to pay mailing charges according to distance. Intent on simplifying the process, Sir Rowland Hill ...
It is the most produced coin in the history of civilization. Its portrait of Lincoln is the most reproduced piece of art on ...