Would you cut a ten dollar bill in half and use as two five dollar bills?
It’s silly to even suggest something like that.
But there was time, not very long ago, when the post office used to honor bisected stamps.
Unless you are into philately, you might not have heard about or seen a bisected stamp.
These are stamps that are cut mostly diagonally across and used in post to pay half its face value.
For example, a ten cent stamp could be cut in half and used as two five cent stamps.
Some went even further and cut stamps in thirds and other fractions.
A bisected stamp used in the Island of Guernsey during World War 2.
At times even the public got into this act.
Mexico was known to have used stamps cut in half, three-quarters, quarters and even eighths.
Otherwise, anybody can cut a stamp in half.
The bisected stamp was 20 centimos before cutting it in two for use as 10 centimos de escudo.
A 10 cent Mexican stamp cut in half and used as a 5 cent stamp in 1916.
