Errors on Stamps, Coins, Collectors' cards,etc
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Beer mat BEL - Stella Artois - Olympic Games Mexico 1968 (M2- with wrong inscription: Double Scull)
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Cachet AUS 1991 WRC Vienna
The cachet depicts a 4X+, but there is no event for
this class of boat at World Rowing Championships.
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CC AUS 1964 MAC ROBERTSON'S quiz card - Mervyn Wood (AUS), Olympic M1X champion OG London 1948, M1X silver medal winner OG Helsinki 1952
The answer is wrong:
M. Wood won 1948 (London)
and came second 1952 (Helsinki)
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CC ESP 1964 NESTLE °Los Juegos Olimpicos 1896-1964° cromo No. 230 OG Tokyo - Oleg Tiurin & Boris Dobrovski (URS), M2X gold medal winners (designer's error M2- instead of M2X)
Gold medal: URS 7:10,66
Silver medal: USA 7:13,16
Bronze medal: TCH 7:14,23
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CC FRA BISCOTTES, ROTIES °DOR° No. 77
Where are the riggers?
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CC FRA CHOCOLAT DE L'ABBAYE D'IGNY Chromo °Course d'Oxford et Cambridge sur la Tamise°
The Boat Race is a sweep oar race - this illustration shows three 8X+!
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CC GBR 1958 EWBANKS Ltd. °Sport and Games No. 15 ROWING°
Sculler cannot stretch his legs!
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CC GDR 1957 OG Melbourne - M2- silver medal winners Igor Buldakov & Viktor Ivanov (URS), M2- European champions 1953, 1955 and 1956
The explanation on the back is wrong: It was Viatcheslav Ivanov who won the single sculls event whereas the M2- sliver medal was won by Viktor Ivanov - an incidental uniformity of surnames 
The German text indicates that Vladimir Ivanov
won the M1X gold medal and the M2- silver medal
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CC GER 1932 BERGMANN CIGARETTES - °Olympia-Sieger 1932° album 3 No. 6 with incorrect text on back about a silver medal for the German crew
The German M4+ won the gold medal, not the silver medal.
It was the German M4- crew who came second in the final.
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CC GER KANT-CACAO- & CHOCOLADENFABRIK WITTENBERG series 283 °Ruderei und Regatten° No. 5 - Oxford - Cambridge
"Regatta in Henley" is wrong.
The Oxford-Cambridge Boat
Race course is in London on
the Thames (Putney to Chiswick)
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CC ITA 1972 SAN CARLO OG Munich with pictogram (silk on cardboard)
Monaco 72? Munich 72!
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CC SUI 1978 EDITIONS RENCONTRE °Sculling - Oxford and Cambridge°
"Sculling" means competing in single (1X), double (2X) or quadruble (4X) sculls - the correct term for the Boat Race is "Rowing" 
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Cinderella URS "Krasny Oktyabr (= Red October)"
"Red October" was a Russian
confectionary manufacturer
Sculler cannot stretch his legs -
Coin BEN 1999 - OG Sydney - 1000 Francs CFA (silver PP Piefort 40,0 g) - mintage 100 only
8X+ at Olympic Games?
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Coin BEN 1999 - OG Sydney 2000 - 200 Francs CFA (Cu-Ni)
8X+ at Olympic Games?
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Coin IVB 2008 OG Beijing - 10 Dollars (silver 925 PP 28,28 g)
An 8X+ race has never been an Olympic event
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Coin MAW 2003 - OG Athens 2004 - 10 Kwacha (silver 999 PP 19,74 g) - 500 issued
The coin shows a M2X - not a "Rowing Pair"!
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Illustrated card CRO 2012 OG London - M4X silver medal win for CRO
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Illustrated is a M4- race during the start strokes -wrong type of boat on the photo!
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Illustrated cover KOR 1988 OG Seoul with corresponding stamp and PM - M4+ bronze medal win for GER
The illustration shows the crew in national jerseys of GDR -
Matchbox label SWE - Westerviks Taendsticksfabriks
The drawing of the single sculls
is incorrect: The riggers are fixed
far too much towards the bow!