Lowest Value Stamps: Two Fifths Of A Farthing.

Acknowledgement: The Stamp Collectors Magazine 1863.

The lowest money value is borne by the one centime of France and Belgium, being not
quite two-fifths of a farthing; and the highest (16s. 8d.) by the four-dollar Californian
Pony Express.


These are also of lower denominations, and below them rank tho five shilling : New
South Wales, the one Scudo Roman, the ninety cents United States, and the three lire of
Tuscany and Sardinia ; but the usual values range from the equivalent of an English
penny to a shilling.
The rarest stamps in actual use are those of Nicaragua, the Philippines, and the Sandwich
Isles ; yet these are, of course, comparatively attainable, and will become commoner as
the demand increases.

Well, there's a prediction that didn't quite come true - most pre-1863 Hawaiian stamps will defy any attempt at classification as "comparatively attainable", unless the comparison is to "absolutely impossible ever to obtain" ...

Ryan