Hundreds of thousands of dollars, that's the value of a 1918 Inverted Jenny, a 1918 airmail issue that shows a Curtiss JN-4 biplane (known as a “Jenny”) flying upside down, one of the rarest stamps in the world, which Broward County, Fla., elections officials said was affixed to an envelope containing an absentee ballot.
The stamp, similar to one that sold in mint condition for $525,000 last year, was canceled. So was the ballot, which contained no clue to the identity of the voter. The mystery unfolded at the elections office Tuesday, when County Commissioner John Rodstrom, a member of the county's Canvassing Board, noticed an unusual stamp on a large white envelope holding an absentee ballot.
A former stamp collector, Rodstrom immediately recognized the unmistakable blue and red image of an upside-down biplane: the Inverted Jenny. "It's very rare, it was in all of the stamp books," he said. "Only so many of these came off the presses." 
美国官员11月10日称，在美国国会中期选举中，佛罗里达州的一位选民无意中在投寄选票的信封上贴上了一枚“倒置的珍妮”邮票。 面值为24美分的“倒置的珍妮”，是美国1918年发行的第一枚航空邮票。 由于印刷错误，邮票中的“柯蒂斯·珍妮―4H”飞机图案印倒，使之成为珍贵的错体邮票，每枚价值至少50万美元。 |
