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$2.00 Inverted Jenny Stamp - 2013

The United States Postal Service has created an instant stamp rarity — a twist on one of the world’s most famous and valuable stamps.
The campaign involves the post office’s recent reprint of the classic 95-year-old stamp error known to collectors as the Inverted Jenny, which shows a Curtiss JN-4 biplane, or a “Jenny,” printed upside down.
That 24-cent airmail stamp, America’s first, was intended for mail carried on an experimental air service between Washington and New York. One bright morning in 1918, a collector named William T. Robey walked into his local post office to buy some stamps, and his life was changed forever.

For the opening of the William H. Gross stamp gallery at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum in Washington, the Postal Service reissued the Inverted Jenny, this time with a face value of $2, in mini-sheets of six with a decorative border.
The original dies were used as a basis for the design, and the stamps were printed using the same intaglio engraving process as the originals. The press run was more than two million, according to the service, but included in the run were some intentional “errors” that postal officials did not publicize.