TUSCANY 1851 issue

Toscana - Toscane - Toskana

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Currency: 60 Quattrini = 20 Soldi = 12 Crazie = 100 Centesimi = 1 Lire

With thanks to Lorenzo, (check his excellent website on Italian States!) who kindly set some of his images at my disposal.

An duchy in Italy until 1860 when it was united with Sardinia. The capital is Florence (Firenze).
Currency: 1 Lira = 60 Quattrini = 20 Soldi = 12 Crazie = 100 Centesimi

1851 Lion with weapon and crown, imperforated (on bluish paper or on white paper)

Warning: I'm not quite sure that all the stamps of this series shown here are genuine! For more information on forgeries of this issue, click here.

  1 quattr black
  1 Soldo yellow
  2 Soldi brown
  1 Crazia red
  2 Crazie blue (also greenish blue)
  4 Crazie green
  6 Crazie blue
  9 Crazie purple
  60 Crazie brown

For the specialist: there are two different issues of theses stamps with different watermarks; in 1851 the watermark was a crown (not the whole crown can be seen on 1 stamp) and in 1853 the watermark changed to wavy lines:

(Watermark crown and wavy lines)

The 60 c is extremely rare, both used and unused. The 2 s was not used very much and was suppresed in 1852 (it is also a very rare stamp). Most common are the 1 c, 2 c, 4 c and 6 c. The distance between the stamps is less than 1 mm, it is therefore difficult to find stamps with all four margins intact. The 2 s and 60 c were officially reprinted in 1866 on original watermarked paper; the 60 c has the '60 CRAZIE' too large and colour of both reprints is too brown (according to Album Weeds).

vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon

*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare

Special cancels:

(Reduced size)

(Cancel of the town of Seravezza)

'PD' in a rectangle with rounded corners.

(Firenze cancel, reduced size)

Letter with Livorno fancy cancel.

"P" cancel, could be bogus, or part of a 'P.D.' cancel.

'P.D.' cancel

Tuscany, 1851 issue, forgeries, part 1, 1851 issue, forgeries, part 2, forgeries, part 3, Fournier forgeries

Tuscany 1860 issue and miscellaneous

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