NG-1965-01
Independence House — ½d
½d · 1965 · First Republic Definitives
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Face value
2d
Issued
1879
Status
Withdrawn
Landmarks & Architecture
Colonial era
Zuma Rock — 2d
Depicts a landmark of the federation, engraved after the architect's own drawings. Issued Lagos & Colonial Issues.
- Catalogue no.
- NG-1879-03
- Issued on
- 7 November 1879
- Withdrawn
- 7 November 1884
- Designer
- Bruce Onobrakpeya (after)
- Printer
- De La Rue, London
- Process
- Recess & lithography
- Perforation
- 14 × 13½
- Watermark
- Sideways NIPOST logo
- Size
- 41 × 27 mm
- Colours
- Sepia & carmine
- Print run
- 750,000
- Stanley Gibbons
- SG 286
- Scott
- 214