page_title: Deutsche Post of the GDR
section_title: Stamps for hard currency
hierarchical_section_title: Deutsche Post of the GDR / Functions / Stamps for hard currency
caption_attribution_description: Information: Bildungseinrichtungen der Deutschen Post: Hochschule für Verkehrswesen „Friedrich List“, Dresden Ausgabepreis: 25 Pfennig First Day of Issue / Erstausgabetag: 10. Februar 1981 Auflage: 2.000.000 Entwurf: Lehmann Druckverfahren: Offsetdruck Michel-Katalog-Nr: Ländercode-MiNr: 2587
context_page_description: The Deutsche Post, also Deutsche Post of the GDR was the state-owned postal and telecommunications monopoly of the German Democratic Republic. The DP was placed under the control of the Ministry for Postal and Telecommunication Services of the GDR - a member of the Council of Ministers of the GDR - and was in operation from 1949 until the reunification of Germany on 3 October 1990.
context_section_description: Stamps were to some degree produced for sale to gain hard currency abroad, and while valid these stamps were not issued for circulation to the general public but sold directly to stamp dealers abroad and to registered philatelists. The DP invented the practice of producing a specific stamp in a set at an intentionally low number – called a Sperrwert (limited issue stamp)  –to artificially increase the value of the stamp and the set. The first Sperrwert was the Mi #464. An example of a Sperrwert is the 25 Pfennig stamp of the 1981 postal set Mi #2587. The other stamps in the set were printed in quantities ranging from 4.5 million to 16 million, but only 2 million of the 25 Pfennig stamp were printed.
caption: A stamp with limited release from the 1981 GDR postal set, Mi #2587
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