how about a billion time it's original face value


taken from an Email sent to me to day by Sotheby's international




For the fourth time in its illustrious history, the British Guiana One-Cent Black on Magenta set a new world auction record for a stamp yesterday at Sotheby's New York, achieving $9,480,000—nearly 1 billion times its original face value. No stamp is rarer than the sole-surviving example of the British Guiana, a unique yet unassuming penny issue from 1856, which has been heralded as the pinnacle of stamp collecting for more than a century. The stamp was rediscovered by a 12-year-old Scottish boy living in South America in 1873, and from there passed through some of the most important stamp collections ever assembled. Until Sotheby's international exhibitions this spring in Hong Kong, London and New York, the British Guiana had been out of public view since the 1986.
For get the world cup football RIGHT BACK to stamp collecting I bet you are all thinking.