Cyprus 1922 1/4 piastre

Ponterio sale 177, lot 34576

photo courtesy Stacks Bowers LLC

This specimen was lot 34576 in Ponterio sale 177 (Chicago, August 2013), where it did not sell. The catalog description^[1] noted, "CYPRUS. 1/4 Piastre, 1922. NGC AU Details-Surface Hairlines. Scarcer date." The SCWC lists this type for 1922 and 1926 where it was struck in moderate numbers along with half piastres (KM 17) and one piastres (KM 18), all in bronze. Cyprus, seized from the Turks by the British in 1878, was given a quasi-sterling coinage where nine piastres = one shilling.

Recorded mintage: 72,000.

Specification: bronze.

Catalog reference: KM-16.

Source:

• ^[1]Ponterio, Richard, Ponterio sale 177: The August 2013 Chicago ANA Auction, World Coins, Irvine, CA: Stack's Bowers, LLC, 2013.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.

Link to:

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• Cyprus 1921 18 piastres
• Cyprus 1926 1/4 piastre
• Coins and currency dated 1922
• return to coins of Cyprus