A listing of postage stamps of Fiji depicting design errors.
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1938 April 5
Fiji
1 1/2-pence stamp depicts an outrigger canoe with no one sailing it; a corrected stamp in 1940 added a man in the canoe.
Catalog numbers: Scott 119; Stanley Gibbons 251
Approximate value: US$2.00 (Scott 2014).
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1938 April 5
Fiji
2- and 6-pence stamps depicts map of Fiji with two lines of longitude but only one is labelled (178); a corrected stamp was issued in 1940 with label "180".
Catalog numbers: Scott 120,125; Stanley Gibbons 253,260
Approximate value: US$16.50 (Scott 2014).
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1940 October 1
Fiji
5-pence stamp depicts blue sugar cane, corrected in 1942 to yellow-green.
Catalog numbers: Scott 123
Approximate value: US$13.00 (Scott 2014).
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1963 August 6
Fiji
First South Pacific Games, Suva.
1-shilling stamp depicts two field hockey players. The left player is likely a reversed image, as the stick head is rounded on the right side, so the ball is played with the flat left side.
Catalog numbers: Scott 201
Approximate value: US$0.25 (Scott 2014).
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2010 December 2
Fiji
40-cent stamp depicts vutukaa (cutnut), Barringtonia edulis, misspelled as "Barringtinia".
Catalog numbers: Scott 1245
Approximate value: US$1 (Scott 2014).
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2010 December 2
Fiji
$10 stamp depicts Malay apple, Syzygium malaccense, misspelled as "malacensis".
Catalog numbers: Scott 1248
Approximate value: US$1 (Scott 2014).
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