NG-1985-18
Bitter Leaf — ₦1
₦1 · 1985 · Nigerian Life & Culture Definitives
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Face value
₦10
Issued
1994
Status
Withdrawn
Flora & Agriculture
Federal era
Documented record gap
Rainforest Canopy — ₦10
Part of a botanical sequence recording the plant life and agriculture of Nigeria, issued late 1990s.
- Catalogue no.
- NG-1994-02
- Issued on
- 4 June 1994
- Withdrawn
- 4 June 1999
- Designer
- Bruce Onobrakpeya (after)
- Printer
- Crown Agents, London
- Process
- Recess & lithography
- Perforation
- 12½ (comb)
- Watermark
- Sideways NIPOST logo
- Size
- 41 × 27 mm
- Colours
- Slate & vermilion
- Print run
- 750,000
- Stanley Gibbons
- SG 2302
- Scott
- 1558
On the record gap
This value entered wide postal circulation with no philatelic release. Unused examples are exceptionally scarce; the Bureau records it here to close the gap in the public record.