NG-2020-08
West African Lion — ₦500
₦500 · 2020 · Nigeria Biodiversity Definitives
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Face value
3k
Issued
1987
Status
Withdrawn
Wildlife
Federal era
Hooded Vulture — 3k
A recess-printed study of one of Nigeria's emblematic species, from the Nigerian Animals Definitives series. The die proof and colour separations are held in the Bureau archive.
- Catalogue no.
- NG-1987-02
- Issued on
- 4 June 1987
- Withdrawn
- 4 June 1992
- Designer
- Bruce Onobrakpeya (after)
- Printer
- De La Rue, London
- Process
- Photogravure
- Perforation
- 14 × 13½
- Watermark
- Sideways NIPOST logo
- Size
- 41 × 27 mm
- Colours
- Sepia & carmine
- Print run
- 1,500,000
- Stanley Gibbons
- SG 1966
- Scott
- 1334