What is the most expensive stamp in China?

The most valuable stamp in China--Red Printed Small Dollar "Treasure of Chinese Stamps" On October 19, 1983, Huo Kangbo, a famous Swiss collector of Chinese stamps and a famous postal merchant, bought a stamp issued by the Qing government in 1897 called "Red Printed Small Dollar" for 66,800 U.S. Dollars (140,625 Swiss Francs at that time). On October 19, 1983, a famous Swiss postal collector, Mr. Huo Kangbo, purchased for 66,800 U.S. dollars (140,625 Swiss francs at that time) a "Small One Dollar" stamp issued by the Qing government in 1897. This precious stamp, of which there are only about 30 in existence, is known as the "Treasure of Chinese Posts". This precious stamp was bought at the auction of "Paul Hocker's Legacy" held at the International Hotel in Zurich. H?cker was a famous Austrian collector of Chinese stamps, and he bought this "small dollar in red" stamp in 1967 for only 800 pounds (US$2,240 at that time.) From March 21 to 28, 1987, at the Gauzenfeld auction held in this super-luxurious hotel, H?ckenberg's stamp was sold for another 250,000 Swiss francs, and the buyer, together with a 15% deposit, spent 287,500 Swiss francs on it. ***The buyer, together with a 15% deposit, spent 287,500 Swiss francs, which was more than 720,000 yuan at that time. This rare stamp set the highest price ever paid for a Chinese stamp. As it surpassed the Japanese 1871 "Five Hundred Writings on the Dragon" issued by the Sun Philatelic Center in Tokyo, Japan, which was bought back in 1973 for US$7,500, it set the highest selling price for a stamp in Asia, and thus became one of the world's 10 highest-selling stamps.

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The monkey stamp, which has gone from 8 cents to less than $3,000, is also a myth of appreciation.　　On the morning of Jan. 5, the first set of stamps for 2007 was publicly released at the city's post office. The stamp pattern is the use of folk colorful toy objects - "rich pig" as the material for the design. The whole pattern is full of motherly care by the "pig mother" and lively and lovely baby pig "family of six" composition. The mother pig wears ornaments on her head and colorful clothes, while the five pig babies are happy and joyful!　　This Year of the Pig stamp was designed by renowned artist Chen Shaohua. The romantic and exaggerated technique of applying the big red color to the form of the animal itself achieves the festive effect of "red-hot", and the symbolism is also very profound: the pig babies are sitting around the mother pig; the pig babies are meant to express the "Five Fortunes" and "Five Fortunes" in the traditional auspicious culture. The baby pig is meant to express the traditional auspicious culture of "Five Fortunes in the Gate" and "Five Sons in the World".　　The 2007 Year of the Pig stamps are the third round of the Year of the Pig zodiac stamps issued in China. The stamps come in a set of 1, with a face value of 1.2 yuan. Including large horizontal open philatelic commemorative booklet priced at 150 yuan, small vertical open philatelic commemorative booklet priced at 50 yuan, the Chinese Zodiac pig large version of 20 stamps face value of 24 yuan, the futures price of 35 yuan before the listing, the issuance of 45 yuan to rise straight to 70 yuan, the Chinese Zodiac pig small version of six stamps face value of 7.2 yuan, the futures price of 24 yuan before the listing, the issuance of 29 yuan from 39 yuan, and now 34 yuan or so, and the small booklet of stamps, priced at 14 yuan.　　It is understood that this set of stamps for the Year of the Pig is very popular with philatelists, and more importantly, it has a lot of room for appreciation. According to the estimation of market professionals, the trend of the Chinese Zodiac pig version of the stamps is likely to drive the general market of the postal market. In addition, according to a philatelic enthusiast Mr. Zhang, from the beginning of this year, the National Postal Bureau of the national stamp issue has new regulations and practices, the stamps for a limited number, reduce the amount of issuance, such as this year's Year of the Pig in the Chinese Zodiac stamps in the small version of the stamps, compared with the 2006 Chinese Zodiac stamps reduced by 50%, it is precisely because of the sharp decrease in the amount of issuance, but also led to the market of the stamps of the bullish.　　As the "boss" of the Chinese Zodiac stamps, the "Geng Shen Nian" monkey stamp issued in 1980 is still the "leading stock" and "wind vane" in the postal market. Weathervane", as a unique theme, the survival of the smaller old varieties, the original issue price of only 8 cents per stamp varieties, has not disappeared from the line of sight of stamp collectors. According to industry insiders, at the beginning of 2006, the monkey stamps from 1,600 yuan to start, the price rose steadily, in June 2006, the price exceeded 2,000 yuan, to October, each has been sold to 2,400 yuan, and now each has reached 2,700 yuan or so, from the current trend, break through 3,000 yuan is only a matter of time. But the monkey stamps have a problem, that is, it is a limited amount of survival, if you take the money in the market want to collect a hundred or eighty, it is estimated that a moment can not really buy. Moreover, play stamp connoisseur will tell you, do not think that the monkey stamps so many years is all the way up, in the postal market downturn in the years, the monkey stamps have also been very bad, then also set a lot of people. Play zodiac stamps people understand, single stamps after all, not too much, so four together with the square Union is favored by investors, than four single total price can be more expensive than some. The rarest and most valuable is the whole version of the monkey stamps, the actual transaction price has exceeded 250,000 yuan, but the whole version of the ticket in the market basically can not be seen, if investors want to buy, can only take their chances in the market. At the same time, experts remind that speculation in stamps are mostly speculative, the market fluctuates greatly, investors should be vigilant.　　From 1980 to now, the new Chinese Zodiac stamp issue has gone through 27 years. As the postal market has always been characterized by speculation on new stamps, from the current price point of view, the Year of the Pig Zodiac stamps speculative value is much higher than the investment value. Its market is inevitably to repeat the previous period of speculation after the price of crazy, late plummet, until the price is so low that no one asked for the same mistake. In the face of such a market, investors should be vigilant.　　Insiders said that the current market is very little short-term opportunities, investors can focus on the issue of time, the amount of survival is small, unique theme of the old Jitiao stamps.　　The new reporter Ma Chi intern Ma Rui weekdays in the postal market seems very quiet, according to reports, Saturday and Sunday but the crowd gathered, bustling.　　Philatelic people, also love to study the relevant knowledge of stamps, twelve Chinese zodiac is China's ancient traditional culture, the neighboring countries and regions have a wide and far-reaching influence, many countries and regions in the world have issued the Chinese zodiac stamps, then, the Chinese zodiac stamps of the world's first and belong to who?　　The First Zodiac Stamps On February 1, 1950, Japan issued the 1950 New Year's stamps, which selected the famous painting "Tiger" by the famous Japanese painter Maruyama Eju as the stamp pattern, corresponding to the Chinese Zodiac of that year, which was recognized as the earliest Zodiac stamps in the world. A painter from the middle of the Edo period in Japan, Enoyama applied perspective to the drawing of Kyoto's famous scenic spots, emphasizing the importance of real-life sketching, while at the same time his works were highly decorative.　　The First Zodiac Stamp Sheet On the day of the release of the 1950 Tiger Year stamps, Japan also issued an imperforate stamp sheet containing five tiger stamps arranged in the shape of a cross, which was also the first imperforate stamp of the Chinese zodiac.　　The First Zodiac Booklet On January 5, 1981, China issued one T.58 "Year of the Xin You" Zodiac stamp and a booklet containing 12 stamps, with a cover featuring a rooster and the twelve Chinese zodiac signs.　　First Chinese Zodiac Electronic Stamps Hongkong Post debuted the Year of the Rabbit (Ding Mao) machine-sold electronic stamps in vending machines on August 8, 1987, with base stamps on floral patterned paper and printed image of a rabbit, ****4 denominations.　　First Zodiac Prize Stamps On December 1, 1989, Japan issued two Zodiac Horse stamps, and in addition to one regular stamp, there was one prize stamp with a narrow format. It shows the Zodiac horse at the bottom and the redemption number and description at the top.　　First Chinese Zodiac Alien Stamp Cuba issued a supplementary stamp on December 28, 1996, when the Year of the Rat was coming to an end, featuring an isosceles right-angled triangle, with the main image of a flowering rat and the seal mark "丙子".　　First Chinese Zodiac Scratch-off Stamps On January 31, 1999, Hongkong Post issued a set of 4 stamps for the Year of the Rabbit. In addition to the Chinese Zodiac rabbit motif, each stamp has a scratch-off area, where different four-letter auspicious phrases can be seen after scratching off the overlay film, ****10 kinds of them, and the full set combination can amount to as many as 40 stamps.　　The First Whole Zodiac Series Hong Kong Post issued Zodiac stamps for 12 consecutive years from 1967 Year of the Sheep to 1978 Year of the Horse, with each set consisting of 2 stamps. Korea also issued Zodiac stamps consecutively in the same cycle, slightly earlier than Hong Kong, but unfortunately, these Zodiac stamps issued by Korea were divided into 2 Zodiac yearly cycles

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The most expensive Chinese stamps are the famous "Red Printed Small Character Dang Yi Yuan" (old stamps) (over 3 million RMB)