A listing of postage stamps of Maldives depicting design errors.
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1974 January 10
Maldives
1-, 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-laree and 2-, 3-, and 10-rufiyaa stamps mark the 100th anniversary of the World Meteorological Organization, with misspelling "METEREOLOGICAL". 3-laree and 3-rufiya stamps misspell "weather" as "weater".
Catalog numbers: Scott 464-71
Approximate value: US$18.55 (Scott 2010).
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1985 September 3
Maldives
15-laree stamp depicts a Lira da Braccio, but the image is reversed left-right.
Catalog numbers: Scott 1102
Approximate value: US$0.25 (Scott 2010).
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1990 February 15
Maldives
18-rufiyaa depicts Johann von Taxis, but incorrectly inscribed as "Franz von Taxis".
Catalog numbers: Scott 1381
Approximate value: US$7.00 (Scott 2018).
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1991 March 11
Maldives
50-laree stamp shows the Olympic rings upside down.
Catalog numbers: Scott 1506
Approximate value: US$0.25 (Scott 2018).
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1991 December 2
Maldives
10-rufiyaa stamp depicts the Gaudy commodore butterfly, but incorrectly inscribed "Guady".
Catalog numbers: Scott 1570
Approximate value: US$2.50 (Scott 2018).
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1991 December 28
Maldives
5-rufiyaa stamp depicts the 1951 Ferrari Aspirata race car, incorrectly inscribed "Aspirarta".
Catalog numbers: Scott 1594c
Approximate value: US$2.00 (Scott 2018).
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1992 April 15
Maldives
15-rufiyaa stamp depicts Walt Disney's Goofy in Chicago's Field Museum, wrongly captioned the Museum of Science and Industry.
Catalog numbers: Scott 1671
Approximate value: US$4.75 (Scott 2010).
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1995 July 6
Maldives
5-rufiyaa stamp depicts a Soviet Union Ilyushin Design Bureau IL-2 Shturmovik fighter plane with incorrect caption "IL-1".
Catalog numbers: Scott 2088d
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1999 December 23
Maldives
IBRA '99 philatelic exhibition, Nuremberg, Germany.
12-rufiyaa stamp depicts 1833 Der Adler train but is inscribed 1848 Drache;
15-rufiyaa stamp depicts 1848 Drache train but is inscribed 1833 Der Adler.
Catalog numbers: Scott 2411-2412
Approximate value: US$6.00 (Scott 2018).
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2000 May 1
Maldives
5-rufiyaa stamp depicts detail from "John, Count of Nassau-Sieger and his Family", but is inscribed "Lucas van Uffel".
Catalog numbers: Scott 2430b
Approximate value: US$2.35 (Scott 2018).
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