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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 5209623, member: 87809&quot;]Would like to ask a question, hope this is the right thread.</p><p><br /></p><p>As some of you may know, I volunteer at a local economy shop that supports several charities. We always have to check the donations, because some people inadvertently mix into their donations papers that we shouldn&#039;t put in the recycling bin, e.g. we have found wills, ID&#039;s, credit cards etc and in those cases we contact the person and inform them what we found and if they want / need it back.</p><p><br /></p><p>This week I was going through a lot of papers and found 2 coupons, which at first I was just about to put into recycling. But then I saw it has a date mark: &quot;9.X.41&quot;&nbsp; meaning it was used / stamped during WWII. So I thought I would better try to find out what this is, and at least learn something<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I searched the Web and found that it is not a stamp, it is an IRC, International Reply Coupon, apparently used in countries members of the UPU (Universal Postal Union) and it could be used for mailing letters exchanging it for stamps in a foreign country.</p><p><br /></p><p>Trying to find out if this kind of &quot;stamps&quot; are collected by stamp collectors I did a&nbsp; search at CT looking for a thread mentioning IRC with 0 results.</p><p><br /></p><p>As you can see the original value of the ones attached was 30 Reichspfennig and they were &quot;devaluated&quot; to 25. On the obverse we can see that both were stamped in Vienna in 1941. The reverse is the same for both, so I only attach one reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>Before I send it to recycling, does anybody know if stamp collectors also collect this kind of &quot;replacement&quot; stamps?</p><p><br /></p><p>Any idea why does it say Deutschland if they were bought at a post office in Vienna?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1215451[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1215452[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1215453[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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