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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 9582318, member: 56&quot;]A lot of stuff from the &#039;20s and &#039;30s.&nbsp; I have quite a few of those.&nbsp; No expert, but I&#039;m not seeing anything that makes me want to run out and research it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The ones with the big numbers are from the German hyper-inflation period 1922/3.&nbsp; I&#039;m fascinated by those and have quite a few.&nbsp; Prices went up so steeply that the post office couldn&#039;t keep up so, for instance, this 200 mark stamp (already a steep price) got over-stamped to 2,000,000 mark value.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]462674[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The highest value stamp produced was 50 billion marks.&nbsp; Just before everything got re-valued, the cost of sending an overseas letter from Germany was 300 billion marks.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most of those stamps are unused because if you held them for just a week, the prices increased so much that the stamps were useless.&nbsp; It&#039;s one of the few cases in which (legitimately) used stamps are actually more valuable than unused.</p><p><br /></p><p>Stamp collecting in general is not doing well these days[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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