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noun
The world's first official national mail postage stamp, issued in 1840 in the United Kingdom as part of the postal reforms establishing a uniform penny post.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, philately
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History
From its color and face value.
