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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eduard, post: 547550, member: 8959&quot;]The key here is the date. This particular date of the type has just recently been recognized as a major rarity as people have started tallying up auction records.&nbsp; All other dates of the type which ran from 1848-1856 ( 6 dates in total) are plentiful, each date appearing 2-10 times every year.&nbsp; </p><p>By contrast, the 1848 was last seen at auction in 1892, and has not been seen since. The expert opinion is that this was my specimen.</p><p><br /></p><p>For all the rarity, it is still only one date of a series, of one of the many German states of the period.....albeit a major German state (Hessen); so wide collector demand is not there.&nbsp; Still nice to have though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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