CANADA – 1851, 12 Pence, Queen Victoria – Worth US.$32,500

In 2013, at auction by Robert Siegel a postage stamp from the first issue of Canada with a nominal value of 12 pence with a portrait of British Queen Victoria was sold for US.$.32,500. This first Canadian stamps were printed in New York by Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson and only 50,000 copies printed, and less than a thousand stamps were ever put into circulation. The rest of the issue was destroyed. Black cancellation on the stamp almost completely closes the drawing and does not allow to see the image of Queen Victoria