The United States Post Office issued the Statue of Liberty
Forever stamp
Non-denominated postage is postage intended to meet a certain postage rate that retains full validity for that intended postage rate even after the rate is increased. It does not show a monetary value, or denomination, on the face. In many Engli ...
on December 1, 2010.
The stamp shows the replica of the
Statue of Liberty (''Liberty Enlightening the World'') located at the
New York-New York Hotel and Casino
New York-New York Hotel and Casino is a casino hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States. It is owned by Vici Properties and operated by MGM Resorts International, and is designed to evoke New York City in its architect ...
on the
Las Vegas Strip
The Las Vegas Strip is a stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard South in Clark County, Nevada, that is known for its concentration of resort hotels and casinos. The Strip, as it is known, is about long, and is immediately south of the Las Vegas city ...
rather than the original Statue of Liberty in New York. The error was not noticed until March 2011. The error was identified by Sunipix, a
stock photo
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agency in Texas.
Ten and a half billion of the
error stamps were produced.
The mistake is the largest run of an error on a postage stamp.
In 2013, sculptor Robert S. Davidson sued the Postal Service for copyright infringement
and in July 2018, a judge ordered the
United States Postal Service
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to pay Davidson $3.5 million.
References
Postage stamps of the United States
Statue of Liberty
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