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Re:Post office stamps as currency (1862) by hammock on Monday April 17, 2017 @04:06PM (#14133965)
It's not. They explain that a stamp DID have intrinsic value, UNTIL (if you read on they explain) the credit of the USPS had been taken away by policy that a smudged/circulated stamp is invalid
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