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April 1888 New York City to Cassel, Germany
5c postal rate paid with 5c brown Garfield and supplementary mail 5c fee
paid with new 5c blue Garfield
The
color of the five cent brown Garfield stamp was changed to blue in 1888.
The sender of this applied the brown stamp and the supplementary mail
office, where late mail was processed, applied the new blue stamp.
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1883
Liberty nickel with "V" but without denomination
1883
Liberty nickel with "cents" added
In
1883 a new design "Liberty" nickel was introduced. The initial
design did not include the word "cents" and soon gold-plated
examples surfaced passing as $5.00 gold pieces. Later in 1883 the design
was altered to include the denomination.
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