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Auction: 154 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 259

#295a, 2c Pan-American, Center Inverted, a fabulous appearing mint example of this great inverted center rarity, possessing wide margins and being unusually well centered when compared to many of the known examples, surrounded by full even perforations, attractive fresh and bright colors, full o.g. that shows little of the disturbance that affect the vast majority of these, small thin at bottom, very fine appearance.

There were originally 200 of these inverts that passed through the Post Office, but the number of examples which still survive today has yet to be determined with certainty, however the immense rarity of this popular stamp is unquestioned. An extraordinary opportunity for the serious collector wishing to acquire one of the great rarities of United States philately in a very attractive presentable condition. An eye-catching example of the Two Cent Pan-American Inverted Center.

Sold for
$16,000