China's first Zodiac stamp was issued on1February, 1980 15, which is the first set of "monkey stamps" in the first round of Zodiac stamps. It is also known as the "golden monkey". Since the issue of this stamp, the current market price has risen from 80 cents at the time of issue to more than 1 1 000 yuan, and its value has increased by 1.25 million times. The 80-piece version of 80 monkeys can be changed into a house. The brand demonstration effect of "Golden Monkey" has made the zodiac stamps prosperous in the development history of the collection and investment industry. ?

Up to now, China has issued the third round of Zodiac stamps. The first round of Zodiac stamps was issued from 1980-199 1, the second round from 1992 -2003, and the third round of Zodiac stamps from 65438+20041October 5, with a total of four stamps. ?

The first round of Zodiac stamps, with 80 stamps in each edition, 8 stamps in horizontal row 10 and 8 stamps in vertical row. The margin paper of the ticket has the imprint of the printing unit, which is referred to as the inscription; There are also color codes and reference lines, also called crosshairs, sheet numbers, sheet numbers and so on. These are all important information and materials for understanding and studying the process of stamp production and printing. Therefore, many philatelists want to collect full-page tickets, but we philatelists generally like the quadruple, which is convenient for collecting and making stamps, and the square couplets with inscriptions on the margin are more popular. ?

There are four types of stamps in the first round of Zodiac Stamps (Beijing Stamp Factory):

★ The first kind is monkey, chicken and pig stamps. The stamps are located on the left paper of the third and eighth rows of stamps, and there are two stamps on the whole page. That is to say, a whole page of stamps can only form two quadrangles with stamps, and only the quadrangles with stamps on the left side. ?

★ The second version is the dog version, and only the left paper has version inscriptions, which are located on the left paper of the third, fifth, sixth and eighth rows of tickets, and * * * has four versions of inscriptions. A full-page ticket can form a stamp with four squares, or a stamp with two squares, and a stamp with two squares (attached figure). This is unique in the zodiac ticket, which is hard to see in other stamps. ?

★ Cattle board ticket is the third kind. There are edition inscriptions on the left and right pages, which are located on the left and right pages of the third and eighth rows of tickets respectively. * * * There are four versions of inscriptions, and a full-page ticket can form four square couplets with version inscriptions. ?

★ The fourth kind of tickets are rats, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses and sheep, all of which are stamped on the left and right sides of the second and ninth rows of tickets. * * * has four stamps. A full-page ticket can form four square couplets with stamps. Different from the first three, these square couplets can carry double-sided paper, that is, square couplets with top or bottom edges (upper left, lower left, upper right and lower right), while the first three square couplets can only carry left or right paper. In addition, judging from the situation of punching holes, the four kinds of tickets, monkey, chicken, dog and pig, all have direct access to the edge paper; Cattle version of the ticket longitudinal open edge paper, horizontal only half edge paper; The mouse version of the ticket and the rest of the zodiac version of the ticket are only half-printed. The inscription version is painted in color, the dog version is also a unique ochre color, and the other version is painted in red.