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A chronological listing of world postage stamps depicting design errors.
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1969 January 15
Canada
6-cent stamp depicts sport of curling; the diameter of the button (center white disc on ice, 12 inches) should have close to the same diameter (approximately 11.5 inches) as the curling stone (black disc).
Catalog numbers: Scott 490; Stanley Gibbons 632
Approximate value: US$0.25 (Scott 2014).
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1969 April 1
Trinidad and Tobago
12-cent and $1 stamps depict plants with a meaningless compass rose. Two other values depict the compase rose with a map of the islands.
Catalog numbers: Scott 150,157; Stanley Gibbons 345,352
Approximate value: US$1.45 (Scott 2010).
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1969 May 5
Austria
3.50-schilling stamp depicting the flag of the Council of Europe, upside-down, as a single point should be at the top of each star.
Catalog numbers: Scott 838
Approximate value: US$0.50 (Scott 2010).
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1969 May 16
Haiti
25-centime stamp depicts name of Albin Stenroos over a stamp image of France, misspelled "Steenroos".
Catalog numbers: Scott 616F
Approximate value: US$0.35 (Scott 2010).
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1969 May 22
Hungary
1-forint stamp depicts the symbol of the International Labour Organization drawn with wrenches with useless circular centers, that will never tighten anything.
Catalog numbers: Scott 1974
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1969 June 3
Norfolk Island
10-cent stamp commemorating Captain James Cook's 1768-69 voyage to observe transit of planet Venus across the Sun, depicts map of world that omits 500-mile coastline of Florida peninsula that is present on 16th century maps.
Catalog numbers: Scott 122; Stanley Gibbons 99
Approximate value: US$0.35 (Scott 2009).
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1969 June 30
Chad
1-franc stamp depicts American athlete Bob Beamon, but first name initial on stamp is "D."
Catalog numbers: Scott 202; Stanley Gibbons 244
Approximate value: US$0.30 (Scott 2010).
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1969 (month unknown)
Liberia
$2 stamp depicts Liberian President Joseph James Cheeseman, misspelled as "Cheesman".
Catalog numbers: Scott 443A
Approximate value: US$3.00 (Scott 2009).
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1969 July 16
Mexico
80-centavo stamp honors Franciscan missionary Father Junipero Serra, but depicts his co-worker Father Francisco Palóu.
Catalog numbers: Scott C346
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1969 August 16
Togo
30-franc stamp depicts Botticelli's The Annunciation, erroneously captioned "ASSOMPTION".
Catalog numbers: Scott 681; Stanley Gibbons 654
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1969 October 1
Guernsey
1-penny and 1-shilling 6-penny stamps show Guernsey location as 40 degrees North, which should be 49 degrees.
Catalog numbers: Scott 9,18; Stanley Gibbons 14,23
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1969 October 2
Germany (Federal Republic)
30+15-pfennig semi-postal stamp depicts a bird seller, with bird drawn on outside of one cage.
Catalog numbers: Scott B452
Approximate value: US$0.30 (Scott 2010).
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1969 October 6
Germany (Democratic Republic)
10-pfennig stamp depicts the television tower and restaurant/observation deck, with the radio waves eminating from the restaurant, rather than the top of the aerial.
Catalog numbers: Scott 1142
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1969 October
Dominica
6-cent, 38-cent, and $1.20 stamps mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mohandas Gandhi, with misspelled caption "GHANDI".
Catalog numbers: Scott 261-63; Stanley Gibbons 265-67
Approximate value: US$1.35 (Scott 2014).
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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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1969 October 29
Costa Rica
35- and 50-centimo airmail stamps depicts the symbol of the International Labour Organization drawn with wrenches with useless circular centers, that will never tighten anything.
Catalog numbers: Scott C492-C493
Approximate value: US$0.50 (Scott 2014).
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1969 November 1
Hungary
40-forint stamp illustrates Jules Verne's book Journey to the Moon with a self-propelled capsule; in the book, the capsule was only fired from a cannon.
Catalog numbers: Scott C287
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1969 November 3
Seychelles
15-cent stamp depicts German cruiser Königsberg "at Aldabra 1915", but the ship was at war with the British in 1915, and had visited German East Africa in 1914, the year that should appear on the stamp.
Catalog numbers: Scott 259; Stanley Gibbons 264
Approximate value: US$2.25 (Scott 2010).
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1969 November 18
Liberia
35-cent stamp depicts "The Ascension", but misinscribed as "The Conception".
Catalog numbers: Scott 509
Approximate value: US$0.40 (Scott 2009).
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1969 November 29
Paraguay
20-centimo stamp depicts painting by Lorenzo di Credi, erroneously inscribed "Crediti".
Catalog numbers: Scott 1212
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1969 December 5
Korea (Republic)
7-won stamp depicts three cog wheels interlocking, meaning they will never move.
Catalog numbers: Scott 574
Approximate value: US$0.40 (Scott 2010).
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