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The Post Office is issuing an Inverted Jenny stamp.

The 2013 Inverted Jenny has a face value of $2 (13 cents in 1918 money) instead of the 24 cent face value of the original. I’ll be interested in seeing what else the USPS changes.

Here’s a blog entry from January that shows the preliminary artwork in comparison with the original Inverted Jenny.

And here’s an old article from Smithsonian about the Inverted Jenny, for those unfamiliar with the story.

(I’m not a big stamp collector; I dabbled in it a little when I was young, with the help of my mother, and somewhere I think I have a Bicentennial first day cover. As I get older, though, I’ve started purchasing USPS first day covers for people and subjects that interest me. See also: the Battle of Lake Erie.)

(And, yes, somewhere I have a copy of George Amick’s book, The Inverted Jenny: Money, Mystery, Mania. I think it is a pretty swell book, even if you’re not that heavily into stamps and the history thereof.)

(Of course, the Inverted Jenny story touches on another subject of interest to me: the Green family.)

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