NG-2020-08
West African Lion — ₦500
₦500 · 2020 · Nigeria Biodiversity Definitives
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Face value
1/-
Issued
1962
Status
Withdrawn
Wildlife
Independence era
Rock Python — 1/-
A recess-printed study of one of Nigeria's emblematic species, from the Independence Definitives series. The die proof and colour separations are held in the Bureau archive.
- Catalogue no.
- NG-1962-06
- Issued on
- 16 February 1962
- Withdrawn
- 16 February 1967
- Designer
- Austin Onwudimegwu
- Printer
- Harrison & Sons, London
- Process
- Lithography
- Perforation
- 13½
- Watermark
- Multiple NIPOST logo
- Size
- 30 × 40 mm
- Colours
- Deep green & black
- Print run
- 1,000,000
- Stanley Gibbons
- SG 1063
- Scott
- 732