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100 Mils - Elizabeth II 1st portrait
| Issuer | Cyprus |
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| Year | 1955-1957 |
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| Value | 100 Mils (0.1) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central depiction of an ancient Cypriot galley under sail, a motif derived from a 7th-century B.C. painted jug and symbolic of the island's historic maritime trade. The denomination numeral 100 appears to the left of the mast in the field. A beaded inner circle frames the design, with the circular legend GOVERNMENT OF CYPRUS·ONE HUNDRED MILS flanking the date, rendered as +1957+, around the periphery. |
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Cyprus's 1955 coinage series — the first issued under Elizabeth II — was introduced just as the EOKA campaign for enosis with Greece was intensifying. By April 1955, bomb attacks had begun in Nicosia, and the colonial administration was simultaneously trying to project normalcy through a new decimal currency. The series ran only until 1957, when the worsening insurgency made routine colonial administration increasingly untenable.
Independence followed in 1960, and this short window of issue was never extended.