Metal currency stamp - a stamp for use on foreign parcels which had to be prepaid at the 'gold' exchange rate in hard currency (gold or silver). Internal mail, on the other hand, used stamps purchased in depreciating paper currency.
Metal currency stamps: stamps that could only be bought for gold or silver; stamps of Peru overprinted "Plata" (silver in Spanish) in 1880 or Greek stamps overprinted AM (Axia Metallike) metal value, ...
Small stamps are usually printed on sheets of a hundred stamps, although the Penny Black, as with other pre-decimal sterling currency stamps, were printed in sheets of 240; larger stamps are printed on sheets of fifty, twenty-five or twenty, ...
Currency Stamp - Handstamps used by the British and French Post Offices, embodying a stated amount of currency (e.g. "GB/40c").
Cut Corner- An area in the upper right corner of an envelope or card that has been removed from the original piece.
 See also: Stamp, Used, Printing, Sheet, Philatelist
  
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