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New Year Token
| Location | Cyprus |
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| Composition | Brass |
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| Obverse description | Crowned portrait of a king facing left as the central device, surrounded by a beaded border. A Greek legend in the peripheral field reads 'Ενθύμιο Βασιλόπιτας', identifying this as a Vasilopita (New Year bread) commemorative token. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ενθύμιο Βασιλόπιτας |
| Reverse description | Saint George, nimbed and in armour, depicted on horseback in high relief, raising his sword to slay a winged dragon beneath the horse's hooves. The design fills the field within a beaded border, with no legend present. |
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