For a record price 2 million dollars was sold at a New York auction of stamps with the image of President Abraham Lincoln – the Associated Press agency reported on Saturday. A collection of over 10 thousand stamps 67-year-old William Ainsworth, resident of Roswell, Georgia, collected over 30 Years. The purchase offers came from all over the world. For 149,6 thousand. dollars, a block of eight stamps was sold, which had a picture of Lincoln printed by mistake upside down. The nominal value of one stamp from this block was 90 cents. This year it is 200. anniversary of birth of Abraham Lincoln – 16. president of the United States.
