Error Found On Nixon Stamp

Now, aren’t you sorry you didn’t run out and buy some Richard Nixon commemorative stamps?

Some of the slow-selling 32-cent stamps may be worth as much as $8,000 apiece because of a misprint, according to Linn’s Stamp News.

The newspaper for stamp collectors reports that the printing error was found on 160 stamps purchased by an unidentified northern Virginia resident.

On the stamps, Nixon’s portrait is split like an image on a television with a faulty vertical hold and his name is printed upside-down.

Such errors can occur when stamps must be run through more than one press to print a second color.

The Nixon stamps were issued in April. The stamps have not proven widely popular, however.