NG-1987-03
Giant Pangolin — 5k
5k · 1987 · Nigerian Animals Definitives
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Face value
1d
Issued
1970
Status
Withdrawn
Wildlife
First Republic
Red River Hog — 1d
A recess-printed study of one of Nigeria's emblematic species, from the First Republic Definitives series. The die proof and colour separations are held in the Bureau archive.
- Catalogue no.
- NG-1970-11
- Issued on
- 6 March 1970
- Withdrawn
- 6 March 1975
- Designer
- Bruce Onobrakpeya (after)
- Printer
- Crown Agents, London
- Process
- Photogravure
- Perforation
- 12½ (comb)
- Watermark
- Sideways NIPOST logo
- Size
- 41 × 27 mm
- Colours
- Slate & vermilion
- Print run
- 1,500,000
- Stanley Gibbons
- SG 1462
- Scott
- 998