Help With Identifying This US #176?

If it's hard paper its 165, if it's soft paper it's 190. Please don't try to eyeball ANY special printing online. Color transmission alone is too iffy, let alone the myriad of tiny details needed to establish an identity.

If you have good reason to think something you are seeing online is a bonafide special printing, then make the purchase provisional depending upon the response to a submission for expertization from a recognized agency.

Thank you essayk, I will update everyone when I have the certs.

Save your money. Based on a scan of the reverse, your stamp will never get a certificate as a Special Printing. It does not exhibit the proper "cameo" effect on the reverse.

A 176 almost always has either ragged perfs or scissor cut perfs (or both). Also, if this were a 176 it would probably be the best example ever found. Put 2 and 2 together and go with the very sound advice of essayk and wtcrowe (two renowned experts) and punt on this one.

The link to the cartel sale of this stamp on ebay.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1875-US-Sp...AOSwDfNajuWa

This stamp is being sold by cartel ID bank-notes again.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1875-US-Sp...AOSw-NFaop3B

23 hours left and the bidding is at a whopping $113. Perhaps people are catching on that these cartel auctions are silly.

"Sold" to a shill for $330.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1875-US-Sp...AOSw-NFaop3B