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A chronological listing of world postage stamps depicting design errors.
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1978 February 20
Cuba
6-centavo stamp depicts painting Landscape with Figures by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, with surname misspelled "Pilliment".
Catalog numbers: Scott 2177; Stanley Gibbons 2432
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1978 March 9
Switzerland
20-centime stamp depicts Il Verbano, with wind blowing sails left and blowing flag and smoke right.
Catalog numbers: Scott 656b; Stanley Gibbons MS952
Approximate value: US$0.30 (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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1978 July 13
Algeria
40-centime through 1.40-dinar stamps depict the Olympic rings logo used for the 3rd African Games, which have nothing to do with the Olympics.
Catalog numbers: Scott 613-17
Approximate value: US$1.75 (Scott 2010).
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1978 July 13
Benin
50-, 60-, 80-franc postage stamps for the 3rd African Games depict Olympic 5-ring logo, despite the Olympics having nothing to do with the African Games.
Catalog numbers: Scott 403-05
Approximate value: US$1.35 (Scott 2010).
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1978 October 4
Solomon Islands
35-cent stamp depicts detail of Albrecht Dürer's painting "Four Apostles" showing the head of Saint Paul but with incorrect caption "Mark".
45-cent stamp depicts detail of Albrecht Dürer's painting "Four Apostles" showing the face of Saint Mark but with incorrect caption "Paul".
Catalog numbers: Scott 375,376; Stanley Gibbons 366,367
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1978 October 30
Antigua
$2 stamp depicts painting Madonna and Child with Saints Joseph and John and a Donor by Sebastiono del Piombo, mis-attributed to Rubens.
Catalog numbers: Scott 526
Approximate value: US$0.65 (Scott 2010).
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1979 February 16
Tonga
18-seniti postage stamp and 74-seniti air post official stamp celebrate a decade of progress, with caption thanking the "United States Peace Corp" with the final "s" missing from "Corps".
Catalog numbers: Scott 451,CO154
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1979 March 8
Afghanistan
14-afghani stamp marks Women's Day, but is inscribed "POSSTES" instead of "POSTES".
Catalog numbers: Scott 956
Approximate value: US$0.50 (Scott 2018).
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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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1979 July 30
Belize
4-cent through $10 stamps mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Rowland Hill (1979), 75th anniversary of powered flight (1978), and but are captioned "75th anniversary of I.C.A.O."; the I.C.A.O. was established in 1947, making 1979 the 32nd anniversary.
Catalog numbers: Scott 440-450
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1979 October 9
Barbados
45-cent stamp depicts ITOS/NOAA over Caribbean, with incorrect caption "Intelsat".
Catalog numbers: Scott 516
Approximate value: US$0.55 (Scott 2010).
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1979 November 1
Kuwait
30-fils and 80-fils stamps depict Bishop Hilarion Capucci captioned as "Kapouchi". This may be just two different transliterations from Arabic.
Catalog numbers: Scott 732-733; Stanley Gibbons 757-758; Michel 756-757
Approximate value: US$4.25 (Scott 2010).
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1979 December 15
Venezuela
EXFILVE '79, 3rd National Philatelix Exhibition.
75-centavo stamp depicts French Mirage 5 fighter jet, but caption at side of image says "CF 5", incorrectly referring to the Canadair CF-5.
Catalog numbers: Scott 1221; Stanley Gibbons 2421
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1979 December 28
Saint Thomas and Prince
8-dobra stamp depicts the flight of Salomon August Andrée in The Eagle in 1897, but misspells his name as "Anree" and has incorrect year 1896.
Catalog numbers: Scott 559
Approximate value: US$0.50 (Scott 2010).
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1980 February 1
Mexico
1.60-peso stamp depicts Tlayacapan church, but is captioned "Actopan";
1.60-peso stamp depicts Actopan church, but is captioned "Tlayacapan".
Catalog numbers: Scott C628-29
Approximate value: US$0.40 (Scott 2010).
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1980 February 1
United States of America
15-cent stamp commemorates the 13th Winter Olympic Games, depicting an ice hockey goalie at his net, but the net has no netting.
Catalog numbers: Scott 1798; Stanley Gibbons 1781
Approximate value: US$0.25 (Scott 2018).
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1980 February 26
Upper Volta
55-franc stamp depicts stamp-holding tweezers that are not subject to the same magnification as the subject stamp.
Catalog numbers: Scott 525; Stanley Gibbons 547
Approximate value: US$0.35 (Scott 2010).
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1980 March 3
Zaire
10-zaire stamp depicts Salvation Army leader General Arnold Brown and wife, with erroneous caption "Mrs. General Brown".
Catalog numbers: Scott 968
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1980 June 6
Cape Verde
1- through 50-escudo stamps for the 22nd Summer Olympic Games depict the Olympic rings symbol incorrectly.
Catalog numbers: Scott 403-9
Approximate value: US$21.70 (Scott 2014).
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1980 June 7
France
2-franc stamp depicts the self-portrait painting of Albrecht Dürer, but captioned "Albert".
Catalog numbers: Scott 1688
Approximate value: US$0.90 (Scott 2014).
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1980 June 28
Algeria
50-centime and 1.40-dinar stamps show incorrect use of the Olympic rings logo for the 1980 Summer Olympic Games.
Catalog numbers: Scott 642-43; Stanley Gibbons 770-771
Approximate value: US$0.75 (Scott 2018).
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1980 July 1
Paraguay
7-guarani stamp shows Frédéric Chopin as "Federico Chopin".
Catalog numbers: Scott 1957e
Approximate value: US$0.50 (Scott 2010).
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1980 July 1
Paraguay
8-guarani stamp shows Richard Wagner (1813-1883) as "Adolph Wagner (1835-1917)".
Catalog numbers: Scott 1957f
Approximate value: US$0.50 (Scott 2010).
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1980 July 1
Paraguay
20-guarani stamp shows Johann Sebastion Bach (1685-1750) as "Juan Sebastian Bach (1714-1788)".
Catalog numbers: Scott 1957g
Approximate value: US$0.50 (Scott 2010).
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1980 July 23
Andorra (Spanish administration)
5-peseta stamp depicts downhill skiing on a stamp commemorating the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
Catalog numbers: Scott 121
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1980 December 26
Korea (Democratic People's Republic)
20-chon and 1-won stamps depict Dag Hammarskjöld as Nobel Prize winner, misspelled "Price".
Catalog numbers: Scott 2007-2008
Approximate value: US$5 (Scott 2010).
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