World's rarest stamp last sold for £6.2m is coming to UK after 143 years

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The British Guiana 1c Magenta (1856), which has been described as 'the Mona Lisa of the stamp world', was bought for $8.3 million US dollars (£6.2 million) at auction last month

The world's rarest stamp, last sold for a staggering £6.2 million, is coming back to Britain for the first time in 143 years.

 

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