Coil stamp
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Coil line pairs often command a premium. A guide line pair of 5¢ blue George Washington coil stamps, Scott 396, is shown in Figure 3.
Mechanical coil or roll stamp dispensers were special vending machines that issued postage stamps, and they were conveniently located along the streets or near mailboxes.
A Plate Number Coil (abbreviated PNC) is a coil stamp with a plate number on it, usually at the bottom of the stamp, below the design. Every printing plate for stamps has such a number assigned to it.
U.S. Plate Number Coil Strips
Strips of FIVE (unless identified as "PNC3")
all strips are mint, never hinged
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Coil: Stamps processed in a long single row and prepared for sale in rolls, often for dispensing from stamp-vending and affixing machines. Some coils, including most U.S.
COIL: Stamps issued in rolls, rather than sheets. Coil stamps have straight edges on two opposite sides.
COMMEMORATIVE: Stamps honoring persons, events, or themes. Sold for a limited time only.
Coil Stamps are the stamps you buy in a roll. If you look carefully you will see that two sides of the stamp are flat and two sides have perforations (small holes where you tear them apart).
Coil wrapper
Writing up - the embellishment of a page or collection by the addition of hand, typewritten or computer-generated data concerning and descriptive of the stamps displayed.
Coil Stamps
Stamps prepared in rolls or coils to be dispensed by shops or vending machines.
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Coil. Stamps prepared in rolls (of from 100 to 1,000) for use in vending machines.
Commemorative. A stamp issued to honor some person, place or event.
Coil: Stamps that are processed in a long single row.
Collateral material: Any material that supports or explains the philatelic material.
Combination cover: Cover having stamps of more than one country.
Coil: A stamp prepared in rolls for sale and use in stamp-vending and affixing machines. Coils are often imperforate on two parallel sides and bear distinctive perforations. Some are numbered on the back to distinguish them from sheet stamps.
Coil Labels
Coil labels first appeared in the middle of the late 1950's, a few years after the 1954 Liberty Series debut.
Coil Counting Number - see Counting Number.
Coil Leader - see Leader.
Coil Line Pair - see Joint Line Pair.
coil stamps - Have a look at the two stamps below. What is the main difference between them?
Coil stamps are kept imperforate at top and bottom, or at the two sides, with perforations on the two other sides, as the case may be. This makes for smooth operation in removing the stamps in strips from the vending machine.
Coil Pair:
Pair of coil stamps, joined vertically or horizontally in the case of the City Type Coils, and horizontally only in Bureau issues. In Bureaus, one also finds gap pairs (qv), line pairs (qv), and combination (line and gap) pairs (qv).
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Coil of 100 - Ashton Potter, Avery Dennison, & Sennet Security Products
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Self-adhesive coil stamps
In this case, 25 or 100 self-adhesive stamps of the same image are included in one box. The paper on the back of every fifth stamp has a control number on it.
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Sealed coil: a full roll of coil stamps that is in the original condition as sold at the post office.
Coil stamps - Postage stamps issued in the form of a long strip, one stamp wide, in the form of a tight roll issued either from a machine or by a hand dispenser. The postage stamps can be arranged in a coil side by side or one above the other.
PNC: (1) A plate number coil stamp; that is, a stamp from a coil that is inscribed with a plate number. The abbreviations PNC3 and PNC5 identify strips of three or five coil stamps with the PNC located in the center position of the strip.
commemorative coil stamp is the 2 cent carmine Lincoln Centennial stamp of 1909 (Sc #368H and V).
Coil Line Pair - Pair of stamps showing a colored line caused by a gap where the curved printing plate is joined.
COILS - Stamps produced in rolls of 100-500 stamps for use in various postal machines.
The foreground stamp commemorates the 50th anniversary of the first successful incandescent light. It was issued in three formats: two different perforations and a coil. The coil stamp is the most expensive to collect.
The Hall of Shame - Reperfed stamps - part 2 "Getting a reperfed stamp is certainly a danger when buying regular stamps, but it is even more of a danger when buying coil stamps! The problem is tied up with the history of the coil stamp: ..." ...
The position of the design on a stamp. On perfectly centered stamps, the design is exactly in the middle. Coil Stamp Stamp produced in a roll for use in vending machines. Usually identified by a pair of straight edges on opposite sides.
Machine Cancel Society
Mailer's Postmark Permit Club
Plate Number Coil Collector's Club
Postmark Collector's Club
Bullseye Cancel Collectors Club
United Postal Stationary Society
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At the time of writing, the only Canadian stamp that is made entirely by the intaglio process is the 45-cent Flag coil.
 See also: Stamp, Used, Cover, Plate, Sheet
  
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