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This sealed stamp packet contains 6 $2.00 stamps for a total of $12 postage in each pack. I have also included a photo of what is in the sealed packet when opened. I have 11 sealed packets and the one opened packet for sale. Most of the packages released in 2013 by the post office depicted the Jenny biplane in the upside down position to commemorate the error stamps released in 1908 where only a few stamps were printed upside down before the post office corrected their error. The few stamps released upside down in error became collector’s items and are today very valuable and coveted. When the post office released the commemorative pack in 2013, nearly all of the packs with the six $2 stamps were printed with these stamps upside down as in the 1908 error. But in a twist, the post office printed 100 packs of the commemorative with the Jenny right side up to create an opportunity for a lucky collector a chance for their own modern rarity in the 2013 version. I have included an article from Linn’s Stamp Collector’s below. This article was written in 2020 and published in Linn’s Stamp News. So you receive $12 in real US postage and a chance to get one of the very rare 2013 upright panels of the commemorative. Of the articles I have researched, I have found 44 of the 100 commemorative upright packets have been found. Collectors continue to find upright varieties of $2 Jenny May 23, 2020, 1 PM By Michael Baadke More than six years after the $2 Jenny Invert stamps were placed on sale, collectors continue to find the rare upright variety among new stamp orders received from the United States Postal Service. Over the past six months, three collectors have contacted Linn’s Stamp News to report new finds. The $2 Jenny stamps (Scott 4806) were issued in panes of six on Sept. 22, 2013, as a tribute to America’s most famous stamp error. That 1918 24¢ Jenny Invert airmail stamp has its blue Jenny biplane accidentally printed upside down within the carmine rose frame (Scott C3a). If you go to Mystic Stamp and enter a search for The $2 stamps from 2013 were at the center of a USPS promotional program that included just 100 specially printed panes intentionally showing the Jenny biplane in the center of each stamp flying right-side up. The regularly issued $2 stamp portrays the plane upside down. All 2.2 million panes from the 2013 issue were sealed in a printed paper envelope within a cellophane wrapping, thwarting efforts to detect the rare upright variety seeded among the common standard issue. Collector demand for the limited upright variety pushed aftermarket values sky-high, with some public auctions seeing realizations of more than $50,000. The 100 upright variety panes were packaged with a card printed with a phone number the finder could call to receive a certificate signed by the U.S. postmaster general, and to register the purchase and discovery. But because the registration is voluntary, it is presumed many of the found panes were never recorded. As a result, no one is sure how many have been found and how many remain undiscovered. The most recent report of an upright variety find came from collector John Palmer, who received his pane on April 8, which also happened to be his wedding anniversary. “When the panes of the Inverted Jenny were first issued I ordered a number of panes hoping for a right-side-up Jenny,” Palmer told Linn’s. “However, no success.” Undaunted, he ordered another three panes from USPS Stamp Fulfillment Services in April, and that order delivered one pane of the upright variety. When Palmer called the toll-free number, he was asked to mail in “a copy of the relevant information.” He did so and is now waiting for a reply. Reports to Linn’s of new finds came to a virtual halt in 2017 after the remaining panes at Stamp Fulfillment Services were distributed to post offices for sale. At the time, Linn’s had recorded 32 finds of the variety verified by the Postal Service. In November 2019, all panes were recalled from post offices so that they could be sold once again from Stamp Fulfillment Services. A search for "Jenny" on the USPS Postal Store website on May 22 showed the $2 Jenny Invert stamp still listed in the available online inventory. If you go to Mystic Stamp Company and do a search of “4806d - 2013 $2.00 Upright Jenny Pane of 6 Stamps”, you will see an ad offering the upright 2013 version for $49,500. Link is listed below. https://www.mysticstamp.com/4806d-2013-200-upright-jenny-pane-of-6-stamps/ I will gladly accept returns filed within 14 days for unopened packets.