🌎 Country

United States

📅 Year

1869

💰 Denomination

3¢

📮 Issue type

Definitive

🖼 Topic

Transportation

The 1869 Pictorial Issue was the first time United States stamps showed something other than a statesman's portrait. The ultramarine 3¢, paying the ordinary letter rate, pictures a wood-burning locomotive. The public disliked the series and it was withdrawn within a year.

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