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1 Pound
| Issuer | Government of Cyprus |
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| Year | 1937-1951 |
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| Value | 1 Pound |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of King George VI set within an ornate scrollwork cartouche at right, with the pound sterling symbol within a decorative frame below. The denomination is rendered in a central horizontal panel in bold letterpress, with trilingual title inscriptions in Greek, Arabic, and English above. The border consists of a fine guilloche lace pattern, and the serial number appears twice — at upper left and lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΜΙΑ ΛΙΡΑ بر ليرا ONE POUND ISSUED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF CYPRUS COMMISSIONER OF CURRENCY |
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Cyprus was a British Crown Colony throughout this note's entire issue window, and the Government of Cyprus — rather than a central bank — served as the direct issuing authority, a arrangement that persisted until the Central Bank was established in 1963. De La Rue printed the series in London, which was entirely standard practice for British colonial paper currency of the period.
The 1937 start date places the first issues squarely in the prewar colonial administration; notes continued to be dated through 1951, meaning the same basic design carried Cyprus through the Second World War and into the early postwar decade without substantive revision.