18 Piastres - Victoria

Cyprus came under British administration in 1878 following the Cyprus Convention with the Ottoman Empire, but the island's monetary system retained a hybrid character for decades — the piastre remained the unit of account even as British colonial machinery took over. The 18-piastre denomination was pegged specifically to the British shilling, a deliberate alignment that made colonial fiscal management tidier without requiring the population to abandon familiar local units entirely.

The Pr#2 reference indicates a proof striking, and surviving examples are rare. By 1901 this was effectively a dying denomination; Cyprus would adopt a decimalized pound system in 1955.