🌎 Country

United States

📅 Year

1898

💰 Denomination

$1

📮 Issue type

Commemorative

🖼 Topic

Animals

Often voted the most beautiful United States stamp, the $1 Trans-Mississippi was issued for the 1898 exposition in Omaha. Its "western" cattle are in fact from a painting of the Scottish Highlands, "The Vanguard" by John MacWhirter.

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