Baden 9 Kreuzer Error (green colour error)
- Maker
- Grand Duchy of Baden (German state)
- Year
- 1851
- Rank
- 14 of 100
- Identifier
- 9 kreuzer printed in green (the 6-kreuzer color) instead of rose/pink; only 4 known (three canceled, one unused); on cover
Baden 9 Kreuzer Error (green colour error)
Realized at auction: $1,730,000, dated 2019-06-08. This is a realized sale. Somebody paid it.
What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?
The most famous German philatelic rarity and German auction record-holder — a plate/color-mix error, 'the Blue Mauritius of Germany.'
9 kreuzer printed in green (the 6-kreuzer color) instead of rose/pink; only 4 known (three canceled, one unused); on cover
What is the best-sourced number for it?
- Figure
- $1,730,000
- Kind
- Realized at auction
- Date
- 2019-06-08
A realized auction price is what a buyer actually paid on the date shown, including the buyer's premium where the sale reported it. It is the strongest kind of reference price, and it is a record of one sale of one object on one day, not a promise of what the next example will bring.
By reference price, Baden 9 Kreuzer Error (green colour error) is number 11 of 99 in the stamps entries of the FLOAT 100. 75 of those 99 rest on a realized sale; the rest carry an asking price or a guide value, and each page says which. Rank within the FLOAT 100 itself (14 here) is editorial: how much an object defines its field, not price alone.
How this is made
- The figure
- One reference price, shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
- Realized or not
- A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
- Why no grade ladder
- Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
- Archive
- 2026-08-08
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