"There was an overprint. We found out about it maybe 10 days ago. We went and spoke to England and said, 'Congratulations, the Commonwealth's changing and it has since Brexit, and you are now a part of Africa'," Mark Peters, chief executive of the Gold Coast Games, was quoted as saying.

"Sometimes you make mistakes and we copped it."

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