The US Postal Service regrets issuing a stamp featuring a photo of a Las Vegas casino's replica Statue of Liberty rather than the original in New York harbour, a spokesman has said.
But the postal service printed three billion of the first-class stamps and will continue to sell them, he said.
And the agency would have selected the photograph anyway, he said.
A stamp collector discovered the mix-up after noting discrepancies between the stamp image and the copper original.
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