<\/a>The Inverted Jenny<\/strong>\u00a0is a\u00a0United States\u00a0postage stamp\u00a0first issued on May 10 1918 in which the image of the\u00a0Curtiss JN-4\u00a0airplane\u00a0in the center of the design was accidentally printed upside-down; it is probably the most famous error in American\u00a0philately.<\/p>\n

Only one pane of 100 of the\u00a0invert stamps\u00a0was ever found, making this\u00a0error\u00a0one of the most prized in all philately; an inverted Jenny was sold at auction in November 2007 for US $977,500.\u00a0In December 2007 a\u00a0mint, never hinged\u00a0example (one not previously affixed to a stamp album), was sold for $825,000. A block of four inverted Jennys was sold at auction in October 2005 for US$2.7 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Inverted Jenny\u00a0is a\u00a0United States\u00a0postage stamp\u00a0first issued on May 10 1918 in which the image of the\u00a0Curtiss JN-4\u00a0airplane\u00a0in the center of the design was accidentally printed upside-down; it is probably the most famous error in American\u00a0philately. Only one pane of 100 of the\u00a0invert stamps\u00a0was ever found, making this\u00a0error\u00a0one of the most prized in all philately; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/motleycrowd.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/motleycrowd.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/motleycrowd.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motleycrowd.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motleycrowd.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/motleycrowd.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10,"href":"http:\/\/motleycrowd.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/motleycrowd.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motleycrowd.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motleycrowd.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}