The world’s most expensive postage stamp was recently sold at an auction in Geneva but the selling price as well as the buyer(s) were not disclosed. However, the last time the stamp was sold, back in 1996, it went for a sticky $4.5 million USD.
The stamp is known as the Treskilling Yellow and was issued in Sweden in 1857 and is the only one known in existence.
It was issued while they were printing the eight-skilling stamps, which are yellow but accidentally printed the three-skilling which should have been green.
In 1885 a Swedish schoolboy found the stamp and sold it for candy money.
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