250 Mils

Cyprus was still a British Crown Colony when this note entered circulation — the island would not achieve independence until August 1960, which makes the "Government of Cyprus" designation on these notes an administrative curiosity rather than a sovereign one. The colonial administration issued its own currency through the Cyprus Currency Board, and Bradbury Wilkinson produced the series in London for a territory under British rule while anti-colonial EOKA insurgency was actively disrupting the island.

The mil denomination itself was a decimal subdivision of the Cyprus pound — 1000 mils to the pound — a system retained after independence and not abandoned until Cyprus decimalized to cents in 1983.