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Face value

15k

Issued

1993

Status

Withdrawn

Wildlife Federal era

Black Crowned Crane — 15k

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-1993-14
Issued on
15 June 1993
Withdrawn
15 June 1998
Designer
M. B. Fashina
Printer
Harrison & Sons, London
Process
Photogravure
Perforation
13½
Watermark
Sideways NIPOST logo
Size
41 × 27 mm
Colours
Deep green & black
Print run
1,500,000
Stanley Gibbons
SG 2218
Scott
1502

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