What Is The Highest Value US Stamp Ever Printed?

I have seen the $9.95 stamp.

Is there anything higher?

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Do you mean just postage stamps or does it include stamps like revenue stamps?
Don

Revenues are where the big face values are. How about $10,000 for Scott# R732 from 1954?

There are quite a few higher denominations on postage stamps, mostly matching the current Express Mail rate when issued.

Here's a larger revenue one, RX25

To my knowledge the $50,000 is the largest denomination ever issued for revenue use. Obviously the highest for postage is a bit lower.

The highest I'm familiar with for a non-revenue postage stamp is SC 4739 which comes in at $19.95


Image courtesy of ebay.

I was just at GCT today. But there are higher values, $22.95 (5041), $23.75 (5157), $24.70 (5258), $25.50 (5348).

The highest face value postage stamps printed for use in the USA are all Newspaper and Periodical stamps. Many in multiples of ten dollars with ten times ten the most at $100.00 face. Of course this was during the late 19th century when a dollar went a bit farther. In general these are stamps with a catalog value of three figures and up to mid five figures but for we common folks there are some under $100, especially used. However there are none less than $10 of the 125 Scott numbers of the PR series.

I show below PR125, but PR113 is the same denomination:




Edit: Added two of these "s" in the text.

Here is another high one: https://www.ebay.com/itm/134287072411

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Peter

There's the $26.95 Priority Mail Express issue from February '22, Scott 5667.

Classic, that's the link in the post above yours. For some reason I could not get the picture correct


Peter

If one wishes to bring up these recent Express Stamps, that is all well and good. But, if we want to really give comparable consideration to the Newspaper and Periodical face values, we need to consider the following:

The high value of the 1875 set is $60.00 face value. In today's buying power, the face value of the stamp would need be $1618.95.

As to the 1895 sets the $100 face value, in today's buying power would be $3533.43.


Thus the 1915 PPIE (Panama Pacific International Exposition) created Palace of Fine Arts shown above with a face value of a mere $26.95 is 0.0076% of the Scott 125 or to put in in a more philatelic manner, you would need to affix 131 of the $26.95 stamps (that's 33 panes of four with one stamp extra) and then add another $2.98 in postage to equal a current Scott125.


[From: https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/in...5?amount=100 ]

I'm trying to wrap my head around the $100 newspaper stamp. As far as I know, newspaper stamps were used for shipping parcels of newspapers around (by US Post Office presumably). Price being 1c/pound, so for $100 that would be 5 tons. Were these stamps affixed to parcels actually or were they used to pay bills associated with shipping newspapers?

For those interested in this sort of thing, $50,000 in 1950 was.......
If you want to compare the value of a $50,000.00 Income or Wealth , in 1950 there are five choices. In 2021 the relative:
real wage or real wealth value of that income or wealth is $563,000.00
household purchasing power value of that income or wealth is $895,000.00
relative labor earnings of that commodity are $1,000,000.00 (using the unskilled wage) or $1,080,000.00 (using production worker compensation)
relative income value of that income or wealth is $1,750,000.00
relative output value of that income or wealth is $3,840,000.00

The OP was asking about postage stamps, not revenue stamps. The revenue stamps showing taxes paid have face value denominations which far exceed all postage stamps but are worthless for paying postage special services and fee charges.




Usually affixed to a 2nd Class bill sheet and cancelled. As you suggest the weight is great, that is why 2nd Class mail did not have a weight limit unlike all other classes of mail.

By the way, such 2nd class bill sheets collecting postage are tough items to find from any era.

The question was raised, and answered. Why does that bother you?