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500 Mills Hercules Coin - Silver proof issue
| Issuer | Central Bank of Cyprus |
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| Year | 1975 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Greek |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued the year after the Turkish military intervention that partitioned the island, this coin was struck at a moment when Cyprus had lost control of roughly 37% of its territory and was absorbing hundreds of thousands of displaced Greek Cypriots from the north. The Hercules type had appeared in Cypriot coinage going back to ancient city-kingdom issues, giving the Central Bank a politically neutral, historically grounded image at a time when any modern symbolism would have been fraught.
The .800 fine silver proof was struck alongside a standard circulation issue, distinguishing it as a deliberate collector piece rather than an emergency or transitional coin.