20 Shillings

Descrizione del dritto	Printed in dark green on cream paper by letterpress. Country name NIGERIA appears at top centre flanked by decorative scrollwork, with "Government of Nigeria" in italic script below; the denomination TWENTY SHILLINGS is set within a guilloche-bordered panel at centre, with 20/- numerals at left and right. Legal tender clause, place and date (Lagos, December 1918), and Treasurer's signature appear in the lower portion, with serial number at lower right.
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Firma/e	D.S. MacGregor
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Commenti	Nigeria's earliest paper currency was authorized under the West African Currency Board, but this 1918 issue carries the Government of Nigeria imprint directly — a consequence of wartime disruption to normal WACB supply channels. Local printing in Lagos was an improvised solution; the metropolitan printers simply could not reliably service West African territories during the later years of the First World War. MacGregor's signature as signatory places this in a very narrow administrative window. Notes locally produced under these conditions are typically rough by metropolitan standards, and the paper stock used in Lagos was not purpose-made currency stock.