Collector pays €3,000 for €9 sheet of withdrawn stamps

A career collector has wasted no time in trying to capitalise on An Post’s error last week after he spent €3,000 to buy a sheet of 15 stamps with a face value of €9.

Padraig O’Shea, who runs a collectors’ shop in Cork, took the snap decision after he was approached with an offer to buy one sheet of 60c stamps that was bought at face value six days earlier.

The special edition stamps were released by An Post only to be withdrawn almost immediately.