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Eagle with Small Shield

Eagle with Large Shield

01.01.1872 Eagle with Small Shield

Northern District

¼ Groschen
violet

¼ Groschen
violet

⅓ Groschen
light green

⅓ Groschen
green

½ Groschen
red orange

½ Groschen
red orange,
large stamp

½ Groschen
red orange,
badly centred

½ Groschen
orange

1 Groschen
rose

1 Groschen
rose, badly
centred

1 Groschen
rose, rough
perforation

1 Groschen
bright rose

2 Groschen
ultramarine

5 Groschen
bister,
tall stamp

1 Groschen rose,
vertical pair

5 Groschen bister,
horizontal pair

Southern District

1 Kreuzer
light green

2 Kreuzer
red orange

3 Kreuzer
rose

3 Kreuzer
rose, pen
cancellation

7 Kreuzer
ultramarine

7 Kreuzer
ultramarine,
badly centred

01.06.1872 Eagle with Large Shield

Northern District

¼ Groschen
violet

⅓ Groschen
light green

⅓ Groschen
light green,
badly centred

½ Groschen
orange

½Groschen orange,
badly centred

1 Groschen
rose

1 Groschen
rose

1 Groschen rose,
tall stamp at right

1 Groschen
rose, badly
centred

2 Groschen
ultramarine

2 Groschen
ultramarine,
tall stamp

2 Groschen
ultramarine,
badly centred

2½ Groschen
red brown

2½ Groschen
brown
orange

2½ Groschen
lilac brown

5 Groschen
bister

5 Groschen
bister

½ Groschen orange,
horizontal pair

1 Groschen rose,
vertical pair

2 Groschen ultramarine,
vertical pair

5 Groschen bister,
vertical pair

Southern District

1 Kreuzer
light green

1 Kreuzer
green

3 Kreuzer
rose

3 Kreuzer
rose, rough
perforation

7 Kreuzer
ultramarine

7 Kreuzer
ultramarine

9 Kreuzer
red brown

9 Kreuzer
lilac brown

7 Kreuzer ultramarine,
vertical pair

01.01.1874 Surcharged

Northern District

Southern District

2½ on 2½
Groschen
red brown

9 on 9
Kreuzer
red brown

9 on 9 Kreuzer
red brown,
badly centred

2½ auf 2½ Groschen
red brown,
horizontal pair

Eagle Stamps used as Pfennige Stamps

The Eagle Stamps with a value between ½ and 5 Groschen could be used up at a
rate of exchange 1 Groschen = 10 Pfennige between 01.01.1875 and 31.12.1875.

½ Groschen
orange

1 Groschen
rose

2½ Groschen
red brown

2½ auf 2½
Groschen
red brown

1 Groschen rose, horizontal pair,
flaw in plate on the right stamp

1 Groschen rose,
horizontal strip of 3

2½ Groschen red
brown, vertical pair