The US Post Office has made a drastic mistake on a stamp honoring an icon of America, the Statue of Liberty.
It turns out that a first-class mail stamp featuring Miss Liberty is based on a photo of a replica of the statue at a casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Postal Service spokesman Roy Betts said three billion stamps have been printed, and they will not be pulled from the market. The 44-cent (about NT$13) forever stamp has been on sale in coils since December last year and is to be released in booklet form.
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The actual Statue of Liberty has appeared on more than 20 stamps previously, Betts said.The mistake was first reported by Linn’s Stamp News.
In the Post Office’s news release in December last year announcing the stamp, the service said the Statue of Liberty was shown in a close-up photograph of her head and crown.
Linn’s, a weekly magazine for stamp collectors, noted that the stamp shows a rectangular patch on the crown of the statue. Such a patch does not appear on the statue in New York Harbor that has welcomed millions of immigrants to their new home.
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In addition, the magazine said, the eyes, eyelids and eyebrows on the replica appeared more sharply defined than on the original statue, and the hair was different.
(AP)
美國郵政總局發行印有美國重要象徵自由女神像的郵票上，犯下了天大的錯誤。
原來應該是自由女神圖案的第一類郵票，被發現郵票上的圖案，竟是內華達州拉斯維加斯一間賭場外，自由女神複製像的照片。
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郵政總局發言人洛伊‧貝茲說，這枚郵票已印製多達三十億枚，印錯的郵票不會下市。面值美金四十四分（約新台幣十三元）製成盤卷式的郵票已於去年十二月開始銷售，而且其小本票（或稱郵票小冊）也將發行。
貝茲說，自由女神像的郵票，過去已發行了超過二十種。《林氏郵票新聞》率先報導這個錯誤。
郵政總局在去年十二月的新聞稿宣布，這枚（新的）自由女神像郵票僅呈現女神頭部與頭冠特寫。
集郵者週刊《林氏》發現，郵票上自由女神像的頭冠有塊矩形補丁，而矗立在紐約港歡迎上百萬移民人士的正牌女神像則沒有。
另外，這份週刊說，贗品的眼睛、眼瞼與眉毛輪廓，比正版女神像深，而且頭髮也不太一樣。
（美聯社／翻譯：林亞蒂）
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