A listing of postage stamps of Papua New Guinea depicting design errors.
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1970 July 8
Papua New Guinea
5-cent stamp depicts Fokker F27 Friendship plane with the tail logo reversed.
Catalog numbers: Scott 308; Stanley Gibbons
Approximate value: US$0.25 (Scott 2010).
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1993 (month unknown)
Papua New Guinea
21-, 45-, 60-, and 90-toea stamps with incorrect capital "T" for the denomination. The error was corrected before release.
Catalog numbers: Scott 770A-D; Stanley Gibbons 683-686
Approximate value: US$7.35 (Scott 2010).
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1999 March 17
Papua New Guinea
Australia '99 World Stamp Expo.
5-t stamp depicts ship Rattlesnake of 1849, but is incorrectly inscribed "Simpson Blanche '1872".
Catalog numbers: Scott 964a
Approximate value: US$0.25 (Scott 2009).
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2007 July 25
Papua New Guinea
Civic values and Services, National Stamp Design Competition.
5.35-K stamp with theme Education is inscribed "Minimising Iliteracy" instead of "Minimising Illiteracy".
Catalog numbers: Stanley Gibbons 1176
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2010 August 4
Papua New Guinea
6.30-kina stamp depicts fire-maned bowerbird, but is inscribed "Adelbert regent bowerbird".
Catalog numbers: Stanley Gibbons 1423
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2010 October 4
Papua New Guinea
19th Commonwealth Games, in New Delhi, India.
3-k stamp depicts professional boxers wearing no required vest or protective head gear.
Catalog numbers: Stanley Gibbons 1427
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