NG-1985-18
Bitter Leaf — ₦1
₦1 · 1985 · Nigerian Life & Culture Definitives
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Face value
₦1000
Issued
1999
Status
Withdrawn
Flora & Agriculture
Federal era
Key value
White Yam — ₦1000
Part of a botanical sequence recording the plant life and agriculture of Nigeria, issued Rainforest Heritage Definitives.
- Catalogue no.
- NG-1999-09
- Issued on
- 25 May 1999
- Withdrawn
- 25 May 2004
- Designer
- Tayo Fatunla
- Printer
- Joh. Enschedé, Haarlem
- Process
- Lithography
- Perforation
- 13 × 13½
- Watermark
- No watermark
- Size
- 35 × 35 mm
- Colours
- Blue & gold
- Print run
- 1,000,000
- Stanley Gibbons
- SG 2449
- Scott
- 1656
Varieties & notes
A minor perforation shift is recorded on the second printing.