What Is Your Highest Denomination Stamp?

I wish I could claim this as my idea, but another poster (Ellie88) suggested asking this group sometime about our highest denomination stamps. Here it is, if you like, but credit to her for the idea! (Edited now that I figured out how to search my posts beyond "recent")

What is your highest-denomination stamp? This is my high-roller, living large with a cv of 1.3 Euros as of my 2016 Michel. I don't know enough German it seems, so I didn't realize I looked at the bottom of the stamp that this is 50 billion marks...

I can always appreciate some good historical context as well! This one is from the inflation period of the German Republic, late 1923. Wives would meet their husbands at work so they could spend their wages before they lost value later in the day. I cannot imagine, was enough of a shock in 2022 when my Stouffer's macaroni increased from $3 to $5 seemingly overnight!

Good idea!

The United Kingdom's highest value stamp so far is the £10 of 1993, printed in many different inks, some of them visible only under fluorescent light, such as Britannia's multicoloured shield.

The embossed dots visible on the scan at the right hand side are Braille for "ten". As far as I know, this helpful innovation hasn't been used for any GB stamps since.

The highest face value stamp used for postage was a Hungary stamp .I believe ,someone asked this question years ago .

They had stamps for millions of adópengö, one adópengö being 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Pengo was the currency unit, adópengö (tax pengo) an accounting unit to combat hyperinflation.

Mr Fairchild doesn't look very friendly, does he?

Is the purpose of this topic to identify a single highest value stamp, or to post lots of pictures of different highest-value stamps from lots of different countries, preferably with stories attached? I hope it's the latter.

When the average home price in 1950 was $7,200, this was a pretty damn expensive piece of paper.

No stamp holds the place of highest value desired than the British 5 Pound Orange .

I was seeking other posters' highest denomination stamp they have, from wherever. The actual value today isn't a factor. Like my example, the 50 billion mark stamp has little actual value except it is fascinating history (which is enough for me to seek it out!)

Some really cool info! I searched before this and nothing came up, but sometimes those searches turn on a certain word choice, that may be different per area. For example, if I got a pop in Texas, someone probably smacked me in the back of the head, but in West Virginia it would mean I bought a soda. Can't think of another way to have defined my search but doubtless there were better ways for me to phrase "highest denomination".

Hungary • 1946 • B-Pengo
From top left to bottom right we have:

1 Trillion • 2 Trillion • 5 Trillion • 10 Trillion • 20 Trillion
50 Trillion • 100 Trillion • 200 Trillion • 500 Trillion • 1000 Trillion (1 quadrillion)
10000 Trillion (10 quadrillion) • 50000 Trillion (50 quadrillion) • 100000 Trillion (100 quadrillion) • 500000 Trillion (500 quadrillion)

1x10^12 + 2*10^12 + 5*10^12 + 10^13 + 2*10^13 + 5*10^13 + 1*10^14 + 2*10^14 + 5*10^14 + 10^15 + 10^16 + 5*10^16 + 10^17 + 5*10^17 =

Scientific Notation:
6.61888*10^17

Standard Notation:
661,888,000,000,000,000

(Six hundred sixty-one quadrillion, eight hundred eighty-eight trillion)

These are the largest denominations of any stamps that I am aware of or have ever seen in 70 years of collecting. I do wonder how common some of them are on cover though.

Sure they are! Hungary went crazy in 1947. They also issued the world record banknote as well.



If you find any cover with those stamps, don't hesitate in sending them to me because I collect them...

Finding german samples is quite easy, hungarian is not that trivial though...

So many posts about the "largest" by many.

How ever the thread is



For me, my highest denomination stamp is always the one on the top of the pile. That even applies when I am up in the mountains.






Edited to get serious :




The above are my two Infinity [ ] value stamps.

Oops,when editing I seems to spin one stamp:

Parcelpostguy, a high denomination postage due stamp seems a bad deal for the recipient lol. Your post reminds me of the map of top States to live in-- Alaska, Maine, Washington, Minnesota, etc!