The World's Commonest Stamp.

WT- If I recall my printing days , it basically came down to X amount of money for set up and plates and then quantity was based on average attainable copies in a full webb press roll of paper. Many small high school and small comic book companies paid really close to the same amount for 100 copies as they would have for 1000. Likely the same case when printing the stamps-- Its going to cost X for 1 billion and we'll do the sheets for free scenario. Probably cost close to the same for 800 million and no free sheets. However I agree it is a waste . The other possibility is when recalling and destroying remainders, they take a write off for the face value rather than the printed cost. Its government accounting after all and as long as its red its OK.

The Orange Spanish stamp...I hate to think how many of those I have. Mind you, compared to some of the Dutch stamps I have it's nothing. I have literally 100's if not over 1000 of a couple of the Dutch stamps I recently sorted. Especially these:

There was a purple 2PTA Spanish stamp from the same set; you can see it in the World Wide Mix picture. We had hundreds of them. I remember swapping one once as a child. I couldn't believe that my friend had never seen one before.

I supose you mean "this thing": There are thrilions of it. Not even Edifil dares to state how many millions were printed on these definitives ...




But for the 1 pta red/orange, there's a second version much more scarce with the printing text "F.N.M.T - B" instead of "F.N.M.T". This stamp was printed on the stand of the Printing Works at the 1960 Barcelona Philatelic Congress, hence the "B" for Barcelona.

Great memories!



and then there were these:

21 Billion penny reds

Gussyboy: I spend a lot of time in the data room here and have probably resurrected more of your old threads than anyone else. Great to know you are still kicking.

BEESEE ------I will get a better picture of the orange bag up later for you.
WT1 ---------Every old timer knows whats in those bags from H.E.Harris .......let me guess how it was written ......................"Dear Parent of {your name here} . Your son/daughter has received stamp approvals and have not paid for them or returned them . So to prevent further legal action and postal authority please submit the total price of $X.XX ,so this matter can be clear up . sign H.E.HARRIS,president ."

Somebody's still selling them, though now they are $6.99 (plus shipping):

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0061OVNYQ...ag=dradis-20

Now I have a reason why I kept the quadzillions
of those issues....thanks

rod222, which one would you like? both were hinged...

If this is the million dollar stamp I hope you share the money!!

"How about US #C39?

Print quantity of 5,070,095,200.

I'm proud to say I own 0.000004% of all the ones printed."

Do you really own over 20,000 of them?

Isn't Kim saying he has around 200 of them? Seems reasonable.

nigelc,

Do the math. .000004% of 5,000,000,000 is 20,000

ok:

.000004% of 5,000,000,000
=.000004 x 5,000,000,000 / 100
=.000004 x 50,000,000
=4 x 50
=200

or,

100% of 5,000,000,000 = 5,000,000,000
10% of 5,000,000,000 = 500,000,000
1% of 5,000,000,000 = 50,000,000
0.1% of 5,000,000,000 = 5,000,000
0.01% of 5,000,000,000 = 500,000
0.001% of 5,000,000,000 = 50,000
0.0001% of 5,000,000,000 = 5,000
0.00001% of 5,000,000,000 = 500
0.000001% of 5,000,000,000 = 50
0.000004% of 5,000,000,000 = 200