Originally sold for $22, released in Jan 2018. Has a different kind of crypto on it. "Group" something...when I first looked into these, face value was $1100
so yeah...the Austria crypto stamps are definitely not the first.
Gibraltar, December 6, 2018
QRG – is born, as a collectible crypto stamp, released in May of 2018 by the National Post office of Gibraltar. A limited supply, only fifty thousand blocks of four stamps have been produced. Each block has a QR code printed next to the stamps, which when scanned generate 200 QRG Coins per block in an Ethereum wallet (e.g. MyEtherWallet) there will never be more than 10,000,000 tokens issued.
One Stamp Collector, who attempted to purchase QRG stamps on opening day said, “Several of us tried, but the Gibraltar Post Office sold out quickly. We received
polite notes saying “the QRG issue is no longer available”.
QRG – UTILITY – QRG has already been accepted as payment by some collectible dealers, private collectors and auction houses. The 200 crypto coins embedded in each block of four QRG Stamps and the anticipation of the coins listing on exchanges has created a scarcity of supply.
Collector and World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov, a world-renowned philatelist puts it
eloquently:
“The collectables world, philatelic and Crypto communities will welcome the
advent of block chain and distributed ledger technology to facilitate the
transfer of value between buyers and sellers. The Gibraltar QRG Coins will be
a leading light in illuminating the transparency of such transactions and
thereby increasing the trust and confidence of participants on both sides.”
https://www.crypto-universe.net/2018/12/05/gibraltar-crypto-currency-qrg-opens-at-22-00-on-the-idcm-io-exchange/https://qrg-stamps.com/Thanks a lot for this info.
Reading this:
One Stamp Collector, who attempted to purchase QRG stamps on opening day said, “Several of us tried, but the Gibraltar Post Office sold out quickly. We received
polite notes saying “the QRG issue is no longer available”.
Makes me believe one or a few whales bought most of the whole contingent, so probably a very centralized distribution, which I don't find very appealing. - Still, it's probably the *real* first crypto stamp, which makes it obviously extremely special.
Compared to this distribution, despite all the appropriate critique about snail-mail and an online-shop that was on-and-off several times a day, the way the Austrian stamps were distributed seems much fairer. I know that almost all crypto-enthusiats that I know of were able to get at least a few stamps.
Also, looking at the order I just received, I think it might be more likely that they do indeed have some protection in place, to prevent the sending office from pre-scanning and selecting (red & yellow) stamps.
Austria is a tiny country, but they are not idiots and regarding crypto they are actually ahead in many ways compared to quite a few larger EU countries.
. Cant wait to get my shipping email now from them, thank you for the update kryptowerk. 
