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1 Pound Cyprus Green Turtle
| Issuer | Central Bank of Cyprus |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | The national arms of Cyprus occupy the central field, depicting a white dove with an olive branch upon a shield, flanked on either side by olive branches forming a wreath. The date 1960 appears within the lower portion of the shield, commemorating the year of independence. A circular legend surrounds the design, inscribed in three languages corresponding to the three communities of Cyprus. The date 1997 appears in the lower field between two raised dots. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The green turtle (Chelonia mydas) nesting population at Alagadi beach in northern Cyprus is one of the last significant Mediterranean breeding colonies, and by 1997 it had become a focal point of conservation conflict — the beaches fell under Turkish Cypriot administration following the 1974 division, complicating any coordinated protection effort across the island. The Society for the Protection of Turtles had been operating there since the late 1980s under difficult political circumstances.
KM#72 was issued as part of Cyprus's wildlife conservation series in the final years before euro adoption rendered the pound obsolete.