Forty-five years ago today, on February 15th, 1980 (December 29th, 1979 in the lunar calendar), China's first zodiac stamp "Monkey Ticket" was issued. As the first zodiac stamp in China, the 1980 edition of "Monkey Ticket" had a face value of only 8 cents and a circulation of 5 million. It is understood that the price of the 80th edition of the monkey ticket has increased tens of thousands of times, from the issue price (face value) of 8 cents at that time to about 12,000 yuan, and the full-page price has reached about 1.5 million yuan. So, why is the 80th edition of Gengshen Monkey Ticket so valuable? According to experts, this monkey ticket is the first zodiac stamp after the founding of New China, and it was originally planned to issue 8 million stamps. Later, since the philatelic activities have just resumed, people's philatelic awareness has not yet awakened, and it has been changed to 5 million after repeated weighing. Coupled with printing reasons, the final acceptance tickets were only more than 4 million. The tickets are distributed to post offices all over the country for re-sale, and the number of full-page monkey tickets in existence is even fewer, which lays the groundwork for the soaring price of monkey tickets in the future. Most importantly, this monkey ticket was created by Master Huang Yongyu. Nowadays, Master Huang Yongyu's works are hard to buy for about one million square foot, and it is logical that monkey tickets created by famous artists are particularly precious. 1980 edition of "Monkey Ticket" single leaflet 1980 edition of "Monkey Ticket" full-page ticket 1980 edition of "Monkey Ticket" Sifanglian Zodiac Monkey Performance over the years The first round of Zodiac Monkey Tickets issued on February 15th, 1980, with a circulation of 5 million pieces and a face value of 8 points. The current market price of 80 large editions is about 1.5 million yuan; In 36 years, China's first "monkey ticket" has appreciated 150,000 times. The second round of zodiac monkey tickets was issued on January 5, 1992, with a circulation of 204 million monkey tickets, with a face value of 20 cents/50 cents. The current market price of 32 large editions is around 300 yuan, an increase of about 13 times; The third round of Zodiac Monkey Tickets was issued on January 5, 2004, with a circulation of 1.8 million pieces and a face value of 80 points. The current market price of the small version is about 400 yuan, and the large version is about 1000 yuan, with an increase of about 80 times. The fourth round of zodiac monkey tickets issued on January 5, 2016.