This stamp was issued in 1867, shortly after the American Civil War.
It belongs to a series which featured the faces of other notable old Americans, including Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. (As a fun fact, certain versions of the Abraham Lincoln 1867 stamp are worth up to $200,000 in their own right.)
Multiple stamp designs used this particular picture of Benjamin Franklin, but this stamp is the most rare of all of them.
The rarest version of this stamp features a z-grill with horizontal ridges.
An 1867 Benjamin Franklin stamp featuring this design can be sold for up to $935,000, and only a couple are known to exist.
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