NG-1968-07
The Nigerian Eagle — 2/6
2/6 · 1968 · First Republic Definitives
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Face value
½d
Issued
1944
Status
Withdrawn
Independence & Anniversaries
Colonial era
States of the Federation — ½d
Carries a cartouche map of the federation with the year of issue below. Issued Lagos & Colonial Issues.
- Catalogue no.
- NG-1944-28
- Issued on
- 7 April 1944
- Withdrawn
- 7 April 1949
- Designer
- Adaeze Iloh
- Printer
- De La Rue, London
- Process
- Lithography
- Perforation
- 14 × 13½
- Watermark
- Multiple NIPOST logo
- Size
- 30 × 40 mm
- Colours
- Sepia & carmine
- Print run
- 1,000,000
- Stanley Gibbons
- SG 811
- Scott
- 564