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NIPOST NIPOST Philately Nigeria Philatelic Bureau
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Face value

½d

Issued

1963

Status

Withdrawn

Industry & Innovation Independence era

Cement Production — ½d

An engraved guilloché design in the house style of the period, issued Independence Definitives for everyday postal use.

Catalogue no.
NG-1963-10
Issued on
3 October 1963
Withdrawn
3 October 1968
Designer
Adaeze Iloh
Printer
Crown Agents, London
Process
Photogravure
Perforation
12½ (comb)
Watermark
Multiple NIPOST logo
Size
30 × 40 mm
Colours
Slate & vermilion
Print run
500,000
Stanley Gibbons
SG 1147
Scott
788

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