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American postage stamp with design error
Statue of Liberty Forever stamp
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Country of production
| USA
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Date of production
| December 1, 2010
(
2010-12-01
)
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Commemorates
| Statue of Liberty
(
New York City
)
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Depicts
| Statue of Liberty
(
Las Vegas
)
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Notability
| Uses image of replica, not original, statue
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No.
in existence
| 10.5 billion
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Estimated value
| Negligible
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The United States Post Office issued the
Statue of Liberty
Forever stamp
on December 1, 2010.
[1]
The stamp shows the replica of the
Statue of Liberty
(
Liberty Enlightening the World
) located at the
New York-New York Hotel and Casino
on the
Las Vegas Strip
rather than the original Statue of Liberty in New York.
[2]
The error was not noticed until March 2011.
[3]
[4]
The error was identified by Sunipix, a
stock photo
agency in Texas.
[5]
Ten and a half billion of the
error stamps
were produced.
[1]
The mistake is the largest run of an error on a postage stamp.
In 2013, sculptor Robert S. Davidson sued the Postal Service for copyright infringement
[6]
and in July 2018, a judge ordered the
United States Postal Service
to pay Davidson $3.5 million.
[7]
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