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5 Shillings
| Issuer | Government of Cyprus |
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| Year | 1952 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Obverse description | A central vignette presents a right-facing portrait of Queen Elizabeth II set within an oval frame, surrounded by intricate guilloche underprint work and stylised palm frond ornaments. The denomination appears in three languages — Greek (ΠΕΝΤΕ ΣΕΛΙΝΙΑ), Turkish (BEŞ ŞİLİN), and English (FIVE SHILLINGS) — arranged across the lower portion of the note. The date 1st September, 1952 and the signature of the Commissioner of Currency are printed along the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | ISSUED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF CYPRUS ΠΕΝΤΕ ΣΕΛΙΝΙΑ BEŞ ŞİLİN FIVE SHILLINGS 1ST SEPTEMBER, 1952 COMMISSIONER OF CURRENCY |
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Cyprus was still a Crown Colony in 1952, and this note was issued under that administration — the same political arrangement that would collapse under EOKA pressure within three years of this series entering circulation. Bradbury Wilkinson had a long relationship with British colonial currency work, and their intaglio printing kept quality consistent across issues that were, in practice, produced for a population increasingly hostile to the issuing authority.
The 5 Shilling denomination was the lowest in the Government of Cyprus series, used heavily in daily trade. Notes at this face value typically show the most wear, and genuinely uncirculated examples of P#30 are harder to find than the higher denominations.