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.
Statue of Liberty Forever stamp | |
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Country of production | USA |
Date of production | December 1, 2010 |
Commemorates | Statue of Liberty (New York City) |
Depicts | Statue of Liberty (Las Vegas) |
Notability | Uses image of replica, not original, statue |
No. in existence | 10.5 billion |
Estimated value | Negligible |
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]