NG-1990-08
West African Lion — 50k
50k · 1990 · Nigerian Animals Definitives
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Face value
10k
Issued
1992
Status
Withdrawn
Wildlife
Federal era
Nile Crocodile — 10k
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-1992-13
- Issued on
- 12 January 1992
- Withdrawn
- 12 January 1997
- Designer
- Crown Agents Design Studio
- Printer
- Crown Agents, London
- Process
- Lithography
- Perforation
- 12½ (comb)
- Watermark
- No watermark
- Size
- 35 × 35 mm
- Colours
- Slate & vermilion
- Print run
- 1,000,000
- Stanley Gibbons
- SG 2197
- Scott
- 1488