What Is The Highest Value US Stamp Ever Printed?

There is nothing in the OP that specified anything of the sort. In fact the subject "What Is The Highest Value US Stamp Ever Printed?" is all-inclusive. Don asked for clarification, yet the OP never replied.

The exchange back and forth regarding high denominations of different stamp types has been interesting. Why is that problematic?

The OP gave as an example a $9.95 stamp of which there are several such denomination postage stamps. Not sure there are any $9.95 revenue stamps (I know you will point one or more out if they exist). Thus deductive reasoning leads to postage stamps, not revenues.

He used that stamp because that was the highest he was aware of. Nothing about the question makes it exclusive to postage, nor do I understand why you think it necessary to be exclusive about the question.

Then using your own logic, your response about newspaper stamps was also off-topic, as the OP wasn't asking about newspaper stamps... or postage dues... or airmail... or postal stationery... see where this is going?

Regardless of what intuitive contortions you force yourself through, the original question was asked about "stamps" without restriction.

Take a look at the posted images of the Newspaper and Periodical Stamp images I posted and if you look carefully your can make out the letters which spell U.S. POSTAGE there at the top which indicates it is valid as a postage stamp for prepayment of paostage.

Now if you allow me to play a bit, the answer is 85A for the highest value (about $3,000,000.00 today) US (postage) Stamp ever printed.

The highest, stamp, a postmark stamp in terms of value to produce would be the overall costs associated with the postmark stamp from one US Post Office. A Post Office which is also the highest stamp ever produced at 252,008 MAMSL (miles above mean sea level). The post office open for just one day, August 2, 1971, is named "On The Moon" in the postmark stamp.



Lastly the highest value (so far) of a US stamp was the stamp (of approval) provided by POTUS Biden for $6,011,000,000,000.00 (rounded) printed US Annual Budget.





To show no animosity, what is the highest face value revenue stamp issued by the US Government? The $50,000.00 shown above or what?

What they actually say is "U.S. POSTAGE NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS". So I strongly suspect that they were NOT valid for ordinary postage, which is why one does not see the low values used on letters of the period.

Yes, the $50,000 stamp shown above is the highest value revenue stamp. Many were used too, by the big distillers. It's the $40,000 value which is the good one.

To be fair, the OP's topic title does not use the word "postage". I believe that this case should be sent to arbitration and the loser thrashed about the upper torso with a zucchini.

Everyone has missed the mark here, this is CLEARLY the highest US postage stamp...


Don

I guess that means the highest revenue stamps all start with RJA........

The category "Stamps and Covers" does strongly suggest payment of postage plus as pointed out before his one example for the subject matter was a $9.95 stamp which is one of several express mail rated postage stamp values. Also $9.95 was the exact final, 18 month, rate of the Special Delivery fee for the up to 2 lbs first class or priority mail matter. That said, $9.95 seems not to match any other non-postage prepaying stamp.

Now I must admit, I forget at times we are in the modern era of society where, "Nobody told me that (fill in the blank with less than bright activity) could cause or result in (fill in appropriate negative outcome, health mental or physical, finance, academic, life changing or life ending) and thus it can not be my fault--so who can I sue? Oh, sorry, I likely should have started this paragraph with a snowflake trigger warning.

Don

"Stamps and Covers" is exactly that. Stamps (all stamps) AND covers (any covers). Postage elitism is not implied.

This bickering about what the OP may or may not have meant is not a good look.