The U.S. Postal Service inadvertently used a replica of the Statue of Liberty that stands in front of a Las Vegas hotel as the model for its stamp instead of the one in New York Harbor, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.

Linn's Stamp News first broke the story, saying the USPS concedes that the stamp was accidentally based on a photo of the 14-year-old faux statue in front of Las Vegas' New York-New York hotel.

The postal service, Stamp News says, got the image from a photo agency that had marked it simply as "Statue of Liberty." The stamp was issued in December.

The New York Times reports that the hair is different in the Las Vegas version and the eyes are more sharply defined.

The Times quotes the postal service as saying it regrets the mistake and will try to prevent such errors in the future, but likes the stamp and does not plan to remove it from circulation.