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Re:Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium by zimpenfish on Sunday August 23, 2026 @10:24AM (#49409081)
To be fair, if I'm reading that right, the difference is "a small light patch on the middle spike"?[0] I can see people missing that easily enough!

[0] Absent contextual cues about height, location, etc., which aren't on the stamp

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Re:Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium by layer8 on Sunday August 23, 2026 @11:01AM (#49409379)
It means that they used a photo with unclear provenance, or they didn’t check the provenance. For issuing a stamp, you don’t just take a random photo of the statue and eyeball it and say “looks close enough to me”.
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