Plate number coil
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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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Plate Number: Numerals or an alphanumeric combination that identifies the printing plate used to print postage stamp images. Plate numbers on sheet stamps often appear in corner margin paper or side margin paper.
Plate numbers. Multistamp issues require as a minimum a plate block with every stamp design represented at least once. Plate block formats are listed by the Scott Publishing Co.
PLATE NUMBER STRIP: A strip of three or five coil stamps with the middle stamp bearing a plate number.
Plate Number
A numeral, occasionally with a letter suffix, usually inscribed on the sheet margins to denote the plate from which stamps were printed - for example 1A.
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Plate Number Single - an individual stamp, mint or used, with a plate number attached.
Plate number - the serial number engraved on a plate which usually appears in a corner of a sheet of stamps. Single digit suffix numbers instead of the whole serial number are printed on coils.
Plate Number Coils, U.S. Mint, EFO's, U.S. Federal Duck Stamps
Fairwinds
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1) A plate number coil stamp; 2) A philatelic-numismatic combination: a cover bearing a stamp and containing a coin, medal or token. In the latter, the coin and stamp are usually related.
PNC. Plate number coil.
Postage Dues. Stamps or markings that indicate an underpayment of postage.
Postal History. The study of postal markings, routes and rates of mail. And anything to do with the history of the mails.
Scarce Plate Number: a plate number that had a limited printing.
Scarpanto: overprint on stamps of Italy, offices in Scarpanto, Aegean Islands; 1912-32
Scarpanto: Dodecanese Island, Aegean Sea 1912 - pre: used stamps of Turkey, 1912: No.
Until 1958 in Canada, selvedge was used mainly to carry inscriptions bearing plate numbers and names of printing companies. Warning information concerning the authorized use was also printed on the selvedge of panes containing precancelled stamps.
Booklet Number Singles Until recently, plate numbers on U.S. booklet stamps could be collected only on the binding stub.
Some stamp production methods, like booklet production, normally cut off plate numbers. In the United States, plate number blocks are collected normally as blocks of four to 20 stamps, depending on the press used to print the stamps.
A block of stamps with sheet margins showing a plate number or numbers. Often it is known simply as a plate block..
Postal stationery:
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This is caused by the miss registration of the phosphor tagging in relation to the ink. Sometimes, a plate number impression will have an entirely different number from the ink plate, ...
Commemoratives in singles and blocks, plate number blocks and airmails; the Scott U.S. Commemorative Album ($8.00); the American Commemorative Stamp Album ($4.50); the Scott U.S. Plate Block Album ($7.00), and the Empire Album for U.S.
postal items that have a Scott number associated with them. It even lists individual values for the different plate numbers and positions. The last Scott's catalog I saw only showed pictures in black and white.
Advanced bureau collectors can carry their collections to another level by collecting coil pairs in various ways, blocks of four, bureau varieties (breaks, repairs, etc), dateds, plate numbers, or anything one can dream up! ...
Plate number - In sheet margins: identifies the printers plate used.
Plating - See reconstruction.
Plug - Insertion on a printing plate or hand/machine stamp - figures of value, repairs etc..
Pmk. - Abbreviation for postmark.
 See also: Plate, Stamp, Used, Printing, Cover
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