Penny Black

English

Etymology

From its color and face value.

Noun

Penny Black (plural Penny Blacks)

  1. (philately) The world's first official national mail postage stamp, issued in 1840 in the United Kingdom as part of the postal reforms establishing a uniform penny post.
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