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10 Shillings / Selinia / Şilin
| Issuer | Government of Cyprus |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Value | 10 Shillings |
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| Obverse lettering | ΔΕΚΑ ΣΕΛΙΝΙΑ TEN SHILLINGS issued by the GOVERNMENT OF CYPRUS CURRENCY COMMISSIONER اون شلن |
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| Variants | P#4 - Specimen |
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Cyprus in 1914 was a British protectorate, formally annexed outright in November of that year following the Ottoman Empire's entry into the war on the German side — Britain could not allow an island it had administered since 1878 to remain in ambiguous treaty status. This note belongs to a small emergency issue pushed through almost immediately after annexation, giving the new colonial government a rudimentary paper currency in denominations intelligible to multiple communities.
The trilingual denomination — English, Greek, and Turkish — was a political necessity, not a design flourish. De La Rue's involvement guaranteed sound production, but the series was short-lived; it was superseded by the Cyprus Currency Board issues within a few years.