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Face value

3k

Issued

1980

Status

Withdrawn

Landmarks & Architecture Federal era

Ogbunike Caves — 3k

Depicts a landmark of the federation, engraved after the architect's own drawings. Issued Nigerian Life & Culture Definitives.

Catalogue no.
NG-1980-11
Issued on
6 March 1980
Withdrawn
6 March 1985
Designer
Tayo Fatunla
Printer
Crown Agents, London
Process
Photogravure
Perforation
12½ (comb)
Watermark
No watermark
Size
35 × 35 mm
Colours
Slate & vermilion
Print run
500,000
Stanley Gibbons
SG 1777
Scott
1208

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