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1 Pound
| Issuer | Central Bank of Nigeria |
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| Year | 1968 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Reverse lettering | Central Bank of Nigeria One Pound |
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| Protection description | Watermark area visible as a circular unprinted reserve on both obverse and reverse, consistent with a central bank watermark in the paper. |
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Nigeria's transition from pounds to naira didn't happen until January 1973, so this 1968 issue was printed well into the post-independence period but still under the old colonial denomination structure. The Central Bank had been issuing pound-denominated notes since 1959, and the series continued with relatively few design changes across those years — which makes distinguishing issues by date a more careful exercise than it might first appear.
Thomas De La Rue's involvement was unbroken from the earliest Nigerian issues, a printing relationship that survived independence without interruption. P#12 sits near the tail end of the pound series, with less than five years of active circulation ahead of it before decimalization made the whole denomination obsolete.