Demonetised Stamps Are withdrawn from circulation and declared void for postal use. Demonetised stamps sold to dealers, after overprinting with some device are termed Remainders.
Design Error Errors by the artist in his original artwork.
Demonetised stamps: Stamps those are no longer valid for postal purpose.
Denomination: The face value of a stamp.
Die: The piece of metal on which the design of the stamps is engraved & used in the press.
Demonetised - No longer legal tender; in particular, a postage stamp bearing a duty in an obsolete system of currency, or of an issue stated by the postal authority to be no longer valid for postage.
These stamps on cover, two from each of four reigns, with face value of five pence, the minimum first class letter rate in 1969, were all valid for postage and the cover was delivered next day. Six were demonetised in 1970 and the remaining two in ...
 See also: Cover, Stamp, Used, Definitive, Watermark
  
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