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50 Pounds Archbishop Makarios
| Issuer | Central Bank of Cyprus |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Value | 50 Pounds |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing bust of Archbishop Makarios III, depicted wearing his distinctive tall Orthodox clerical hat (kalimavkion) and ecclesiastical vestments with a pectoral chain visible at the neckline, rendered in high relief with fine portrait detail engraved by Basil Phalireas. The legend ΑΡΧΙΕΠ•ΜΑΚΑΡΙΟΣ curves along the left field, while ΠΡΟΕΔΡΟΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑΣ ΚΥΠΡΟΥ arcs along the right periphery. The dates 1960 and 1977, denoting the span of his presidency, are inscribed in two lines in the lower right field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued the year Makarios III died — August 1977 — this commemorative was released by a central bank operating under genuinely fractured circumstances. Cyprus had been partitioned since the Turkish military intervention of 1974, and Makarios himself had spent part of that period in exile after being deposed in a Greek junta-backed coup, only to return and serve out his final years as president of a truncated republic. The coin was struck at the Royal Mint in Llantrisant.