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Elizabeth II Definitive Stamps 1956 to 1961

Halfpenny Black & Deep Lilac
This stamp features the Cape Lighthouse, in 1956 the most powerful light on the West African Coast and
already one hundred years old.

Printings:	    5 Sep 1955	  1,276,500
	              4 Feb 1958	      57,000
	              6 Sep 1957	
	             16 Apr 1958	    344,400
                              620,820
	            Total Stamps	
                            2,298,720

Postcard published by Pickering & Bertoud Ltd., Freetown, Sierra Leone
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