Catalog
1 Shilling
| Issuer | Government of Cyprus |
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| Year | 1939-1947 |
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| Value | 1 Shilling (1/20) |
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| Obverse description | Central intaglio vignette of King George VI in left-facing portrait, set within an oval frame, printed in red-brown on a green guilloche underprint. Serial numbers appear in red at upper left and upper right, flanking the central portrait. The denomination is inscribed in three languages — Greek (ΕΝΑ ΣΕΛΙΝΙ), Arabic, and English (ONE SHILLING) — with the date and the title Commissioner of Currency printed at the bottom. |
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| Reverse lettering | GOVERNMENT OF CYPRUS |
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| Comments |
Cyprus remained under British administration throughout this note's production window, and the Shilling denomination reflected the island's integration into a sterling-based monetary system — not a local tradition. Bradbury Wilkinson, one of the more technically accomplished security printers of the mid-century, produced the guilloche underprint work here to a standard consistent with their Colonial Office contracts of the period.
The eight-year date span across this series reflects wartime disruption to print scheduling rather than any policy revision. Notes from the earlier end of the range are noticeably scarcer.