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A tiny scrap of paper is expected to sell for as much as $15 million at an auction in New York City Tuesday. The "One-Cent Magenta" holds the Guinness world record for most-valuable stamp, with its 2014 auction price ringing in at "nearly one billion times the original face value," according to record keepers.
By Elena Goukassian
When Whitney Sherman goes to the post office, 99 percent of the time, she buys the same postage stamp a breast cancer research stamp first issued in 1998 that holds the title of longest-running postal issue in US history. The iconic stamp features a line drawing of Artemis, the Greek goddess of hunting, awash in a flowing rainbow of colors with the words “FUND THE FIGHT. FIND A CURE.” encircling her right breast. To date, the stamp has raised more than $90 million for breast cancer research, but that’s not the only reason Sherman buys it. In fact, she created the illustration.