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Face value

½d

Issued

1965

Status

Withdrawn

Landmarks & Architecture First Republic

Independence House — ½d

Depicts a landmark of the federation, engraved after the architect's own drawings. Issued First Republic Definitives.

Catalogue no.
NG-1965-01
Issued on
1 January 1965
Withdrawn
1 January 1970
Designer
Chief Erhabor Emokpae
Printer
Crown Agents, London
Process
Lithography
Perforation
12½ (comb)
Watermark
Multiple Crown Script CA
Size
25 × 30 mm
Colours
Slate & vermilion
Print run
250,000
Stanley Gibbons
SG 1252
Scott
858

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