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The Specimen stamp isn't scarce so plenty available.
There were 20,234 Agriculture Special Printings sold. 10,000 on thin hard white paper, 10,000 on Horizontally ribbed paper, both printed in 1875 by Continental. On 31 Dec 1883, American BNC printed another 5000 of soft paper, only 234 of those were sold.
http://chronicle.uspcs.org/pdf/Chro...64/11537.pdf