Treskilling Yellow

Treskilling Yellow
Treskilling Yellow
Country of production	Sweden
Date of production	1855
Nature of rarity	Colour error
No. in existence	one
Face value	three Swedish skillings
Estimated value	At least 2,880,000 Swiss francs or $2,300,000; (last known sale price 1996); €1.5–2 million; (estimate in 2010)

The Treskilling Yellow, or three schilling banco error of color (Swedish: Gul tre skilling banco, literally "yellow three skilling banco"), is a Swedish postage stamp of which only one example is known to exist. This stamp was cancelled at Nya Kopparberget (now known as Kopparberg), about 150 kilometres (93 mi) from Uppsala, on July 13, 1857.^[2] It was last sold in 2010. The auction house valued the stamp between £1.29 million and £1.73 million before the sale. The winning bid was kept confidential.^[3]

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^ Judgment in Jean-Claude Andre v. Clydesdale Bank PLC lawsuit, January 31 and February 1, 2013, paras. 122 & 166.
^ "World's most expensive stamp sold". The Telegraph. 2010-05-23. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2019-05-20.

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[2] Judgment in Jean-Claude Andre v. Clydesdale Bank PLC lawsuit, January 31 and February 1, 2013, paras. 122 & 166.

[:0-3] "World's most expensive stamp sold". The Telegraph. 2010-05-23. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2019-05-20.

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