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Face value

50k

Issued

1984

Status

Withdrawn

Industry & Innovation Federal era Key value

Timber & Forestry — 50k

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

Catalogue no.
NG-1984-17
Issued on
24 September 1984
Withdrawn
24 September 1989
Designer
Austin Onwudimegwu
Printer
Harrison & Sons, London
Process
Photogravure
Perforation
13½
Watermark
Multiple NIPOST logo
Size
30 × 40 mm
Colours
Deep green & black
Print run
500,000
Stanley Gibbons
SG 1903
Scott
1292

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