🌎 Country

United States

📅 Year

1930

💰 Denomination

$2.60

📮 Issue type

Airmail

🖼 Topic

Aviation

One of three stamps issued for mail carried on the Graf Zeppelin's Europe–Pan America flight. At $2.60 in the first year of the Depression almost nobody could afford it; most of the printing was destroyed, which is why it is prized today.

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