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1 Pound Cyprus Orchid - Silver Proof Issue
| Issuer | Central Bank of Cyprus |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Weight | 28.28 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | 1£ |
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Cyprus joined the global wave of wildlife conservation coinage that swept through commonwealth-adjacent mints in the 1990s, driven partly by WWF licensing arrangements and partly by collector market demand that made silver proofs a reliable revenue stream for smaller central banks. The native Ophrys kotschyi — the Cyprus bee orchid — had been under habitat pressure since the accelerated resort development of the 1980s along the southern coast.
KM#90a is the silver proof variant of a base-metal circulation issue, a pairing common to Cypriot commemorative policy of that decade.