A listing of postage stamps of Mali depicting design errors.
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1965 September 14
Mali
100-franc airmail stamp depicts Pope John XXIII with tiara worn rotated 90 degrees (we should see the side of the cross), and possibly the wrong tiara and clothes.
Catalog numbers: Scott C30
Approximate value: US$1 (Scott 2010).
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1969 October 20
Mali
500-franc stamp depict's Leonardo da ("de" in French) Vinci's painting Mona Lisa, with misspelled first name "LEONARD".
Catalog numbers: Scott C82
Approximate value: US$2.25 (Scott 2010).
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1971 March 8
Mali
150-franc stamp depicts horse race at Epsom Derby, but that racecourse does not contain any obstacles like pictured on the stamp.
Catalog numbers: Scott C117
Approximate value: US$0.90 (Scott 2010).
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1977 May 30
Mali
130-franc airmail stamp depicts the Graf Zeppelin with date 1924, but the ship was built between 1926 and 1928.
Catalog numbers: Scott C306
Approximate value: US$0.25 (Scott 2010).
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1977 May 30
Mali
350-franc airmail stamp depicts the 1937 crash of the zeppelin Hindenburg, but shows it crashing front first, rather than the actual rear first.
Catalog numbers: Scott C307
Approximate value: US$0.65 (Scott 2010).
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1978 March 28
Mali
420-franc stamp depicts Hans Sebald Beham's Tête du Christ, but credits Albrecht Dürer, and also gets Dürer's birth year wrong, 1474 instead of the correct 1471.
Catalog numbers: Scott C329
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1981 December 7
Mali
200-franc stamp depicts Albert Calmette and Camille Guerin and a microscopic image of bacteria; the image is purple when it should be red resulting from the acid-fast staining procedure.
Catalog numbers: Scott 441
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1994 June 23
Mali
100th anniversary of the International Olympic Committee.
150- and 200-franc stamps depict the Olympic rings, with the correct blue/yellow overlaps swapped.
Catalog numbers: Scott 681A,681B
Approximate value: US$1.50 (Scott 2018).
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1995 October 20
Mali
100-franc stamp depicts a Crimson-crested Woodpecker (Campephilus melanoleucos), misspelled as "menaloleucos".
Catalog numbers: Scott 717e
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1995 December 8
Mali
100th Anniversary of motion pictures.
150-franc postage stamp depicts Justus D. Barnes, misidentified as George Barnes;
200-franc postage stamp depicts film director John Huston, misspelled as "Houston".
Catalog numbers: Scott 723a,724c; Stanley Gibbons 1449
Approximate value: US$1.35 (Scott 2018).
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1997 (month unknown)
Mali
250-franc postage stamp, depicts sailing ship Lightning by Donald McKay with caption "MAC KAY".
Catalog numbers: Scott 903a
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