Counterfeit Guide
Bob Marley & The Wailers — Exodus
Island ILPS 9498
Last updated June 4, 2026
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The UK first pressing on Island, catalogue ILPS 9498, has a sleeve with embossed gold Ethiopic-style lettering and Marley's portrait. The label is the late-1970s Island 'palm tree' or sunray pink style of the period. Genuine copies show crisp embossing and the correct catalogue and matrix details.
Matrix / Runout
Runout in the style 'ILPS 9498 A' / 'ILPS 9498 B' with stamped plant codes; genuine UK copies carry consistent machine-stamped suffixes.
3 Tells That Reveal a Fake
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Fakes flatten the embossed gold lettering on the front sleeve into a printed-only design with no raised texture you can feel.
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Counterfeit labels use the wrong Island label variant for 1977, with off colour and blurred small print around the rim.
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Reproductions show weak colour in the portrait and thin sleeve card, unlike the heavyweight original jacket.
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