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Face value

6d

Issued

1964

Status

Withdrawn

Industry & Innovation Independence era

Cotton Ginning — 6d

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

Catalogue no.
NG-1964-14
Issued on
15 June 1964
Withdrawn
15 June 1969
Designer
Austin Onwudimegwu
Printer
De La Rue, London
Process
Recess & lithography
Perforation
14 × 13½
Watermark
Multiple NIPOST logo
Size
30 × 40 mm
Colours
Sepia & carmine
Print run
2,000,000
Stanley Gibbons
SG 1231
Scott
844

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