5 Cents Type 1 coat of arms, solid value number

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Reverse description	The reverse features a depiction of a fourteenth-century B.C. silver bowl with a wishbone handle, an artefact housed in the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia, rendered in profile at the centre of the field. The bowl's ancient form is presented in a clean, engraved style reflecting its archaeological significance. The solid numeral '5' appears below the vessel, denoting the face value of the coin.
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Additional information	Cyprus joined the European Monetary System in 1992, but this coin predates that shift — struck when the pound remained fully independent and the island's partition, formalized after the Turkish military intervention of 1974, had already severed the northern third of the territory from Nicosia's monetary authority. The Central Bank was, in practical terms, issuing currency for a truncated state. The KM#55.1 designation distinguishes this from the later 55.2 type, where the value numeral was given an outline treatment. The solid numeral variant ran from 1980 through the mid-1980s before the design modification was introduced.