NG-1962-06
Rock Python — 1/-
1/- · 1962 · Independence Definitives
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Face value
5k
Issued
1987
Status
Withdrawn
Wildlife
Federal era
Giant Pangolin — 5k
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-1987-03
- Issued on
- 7 November 1987
- Withdrawn
- 7 November 1992
- Designer
- Adaeze Iloh
- Printer
- Crown Agents, London
- Process
- Recess & lithography
- Perforation
- 12½ (comb)
- Watermark
- Multiple NIPOST logo
- Size
- 30 × 40 mm
- Colours
- Slate & vermilion
- Print run
- 2,000,000
- Stanley Gibbons
- SG 1987
- Scott
- 1348