NG-1910-15
West African Lion — 1/-
1/- · 1910 · Lagos & Colonial Issues
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Face value
50k
Issued
1990
Status
Withdrawn
Wildlife
Federal era
Key value
West African Lion — 50k
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-1990-08
- Issued on
- 22 December 1990
- Withdrawn
- 22 December 1995
- Designer
- Chief Erhabor Emokpae
- Printer
- Crown Agents, London
- Process
- Photogravure
- Perforation
- 12½ (comb)
- Watermark
- Multiple Crown Script CA
- Size
- 25 × 30 mm
- Colours
- Slate & vermilion
- Print run
- 1,500,000
- Stanley Gibbons
- SG 2092
- Scott
- 1418