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    Hi I am a bit confised by this one:crazy:

    The Pittsburgh PA postcard has been sent from US to England with 1d to Pay

    But at the bottome it says Postage Due 1 cents and then T NYN Centimes 6 . Strange as centimes are nost used in USA only cents is this a spelling error ??? or something else ie what does T NYN stand for???

    Quite an interesting one any ideas what a collector might pay??/

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    Hi I am a bit confised by this one:crazy:

    The Pittsburgh PA postcard has been sent from US to England with 1d to Pay

    But at the bottome it says Postage Due 1 cents and then T NYN Centimes 6 . Strange as centimes are nost used in USA only cents is this a spelling error ??? or something else ie what does T NYN stand for???

    Quite an interesting one any ideas what a collector might pay??/

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    • Aangemaakt 27 okt 2010 op 19:32
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    Hi,

    The T NYN stands for Taxe New York N? - not sure about the last N

    International UPU regulations decreed that the language and currency to be used for all matters such as postage due were to be given in French - hence 'Taxe' - french for postage due ( actually item to be additionally charged or taxed) and the conversion to centimes means that, in this case, the USPS would convert the USD postage due figure 1 cent, into French centimes and the receiving country would convert that into their currency - sterling in this case.

    This was done to theoretically give a consistency in one currency instead of each country having to know what the charge was in 200+ countries of origin and convert that to their local currency.

    Hope this has been of help

    Sam
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    Hi,

    The T NYN stands for Taxe New York N? - not sure about the last N

    International UPU regulations decreed that the language and currency to be used for all matters such as postage due were to be given in French - hence 'Taxe' - french for postage due ( actually item to be additionally charged or taxed) and the conversion to centimes means that, in this case, the USPS would convert the USD postage due figure 1 cent, into French centimes and the receiving country would convert that into their currency - sterling in this case.

    This was done to theoretically give a consistency in one currency instead of each country having to know what the charge was in 200+ countries of origin and convert that to their local currency.

    Hope this has been of help

    Sam
    • Aangemaakt 28 okt 2010 op 08:33
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