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Hi Opa,
This would be a nice find if it's genuine but I'm not sure.
The postmark seems to be JERUSALEM which makes sense as a lot of the French currency stamps were used there.
I can't see the postmark clearly but I wonder if the letters may be too widely separated (although this is just my impression).
It would be much more convincing if it had a clear date (or any date) and there weren't so many postmarks.
I have a vision of a sheet of mint stamps being "improved" with a fake canceller. 
I hope I'm wrong and that you've struck lucky with this one.
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I also noted the 3 cancels and just found in one of my older catalogs that reads #1-7 are common with fake cancels. Would have been a good find. Sad, I think the stamp itself has a very nice design.
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I found this looking through a old album. A used 4 Francs, Kaiser Franz Joseph overprint Acording to my Michel (2013) it´s Mi.7 from 1904 and priced at €800. Any thoughts?
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re: Austrian Post on Crete
Hi Opa,
This would be a nice find if it's genuine but I'm not sure.
The postmark seems to be JERUSALEM which makes sense as a lot of the French currency stamps were used there.
I can't see the postmark clearly but I wonder if the letters may be too widely separated (although this is just my impression).
It would be much more convincing if it had a clear date (or any date) and there weren't so many postmarks.
I have a vision of a sheet of mint stamps being "improved" with a fake canceller.
I hope I'm wrong and that you've struck lucky with this one.
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re: Austrian Post on Crete
I also noted the 3 cancels and just found in one of my older catalogs that reads #1-7 are common with fake cancels. Would have been a good find. Sad, I think the stamp itself has a very nice design.
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