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Face value

₦1

Issued

1979

Status

Withdrawn

Industry & Innovation Federal era Key value

Leatherwork — ₦1

An engraved guilloché design in the house style of the period, issued Nigerian Life & Culture Definitives for everyday postal use.

Catalogue no.
NG-1979-09
Issued on
25 May 1979
Withdrawn
25 May 1984
Designer
Austin Onwudimegwu
Printer
Nigerian Security Printing & Minting Plc
Process
Recess & lithography
Perforation
14
Watermark
Multiple NIPOST logo
Size
30 × 40 mm
Colours
Multicolour
Print run
2,000,000
Stanley Gibbons
SG 1735
Scott
1180

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