Counterfit or rare variant of Biafra 5 Shilling?

I was adding signatures to Biafra and stumpled upon this 1x note on Bank Note Museum:

http://www.banknote.ws/COLLECTION/countries/AFR/BIA/BIA0001.htm

My question is if anyone has more information on it? Should it be made to a new yearline or should it be a new entry under eg. "contemporary counterfit"? Or alternatively a new entry as a standard banknote, as the sun could be argued to be a big enough difference?

The note we have is with rays around the sun:

N#202783

It does not look like a counterfeit to me. Print quality is too good.

All of the orange print on the note is very faintly impressed, or not present, throughout the underprint and around the 5 on the right side. Also, the purple pattern around the 5 on the right is very faint on the BNM note.

I would say that it most likely either a print error or a note which has had some ink washed out in some way, in particular the orange ink .

Hello!

As I had already briefly discussed with Jamtrup, the record of this "variant" only exists (so far) in the BNM; and with a Pick reference that simply does not exist.

In my opinion, even if it is not a counterfeit, it does not deserve to be registered here in Numista. If any user brings us more concrete information about it, we can review it.

Regards,

Vladimir.

vladthiengo

In my opinion, even if it is not a counterfeit, it does not deserve to be registered here in Numista.

Agree 100%