A listing of postage stamps of USSR depicting design errors.
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1956 August 27
USSR
40-kopeck stamp depicts Mahmud Bagir Ogly Aivazov with first name misspelled as "Muhamed". A second stamp was issued with corrected name.
Catalog numbers: Scott 1860a
Approximate value: US$18 (Scott 2010).
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1958 May
USSR
40-kopeck stamp depicts an inverted Czech flag, with red on top instead of the bottom half of the flag. A corrected version was soon issued.
Catalog numbers: Scott 2067
Approximate value: US$3 (Scott 2010).
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1964 March 9
USSR
3-kopek stamp depicts Olympic ice hockey with 5-sided snowflake design (should have six).
Catalog numbers: Scott 2866
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1971 November 16
USSR
10-kopek stamp depicts US Communist Party leader William Foster, with year of death "1964" instead of the correct 1961. A corrected stamp was issued December 8.
Catalog numbers: Scott 3915a
Approximate value: US$7.25 (Scott 2010).
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1979 June
USSR
22nd Summer Olympic Games, Moscow, USSR, July 19 to August 3, 1980.
20+10-kopeck semi-postal stamp depicts two field hockey players, but from hand/stick positioning, the image is flipped left-right.
Catalog numbers: Scott B95
Approximate value: US$0.40 (Scott 2010).
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1990 February 15
USSR
20-kopek stamp depicts Great Britain 1840 1-penny stamp with invalid corner letters "TP", as highest letters used were "TL"; a corrected stamp with "TF" was issued;
35-kopek stamp depicts Great Britain 1840 1-penny stamp with invalid corner letters "VK"; a corrected stamp with "AH" was issued.
Catalog numbers: Scott 5875,5878
Approximate value: US$1.20 (Scott 2010).
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