Cyprus 1949 1/2 piastre

from the Ma'adi Collection

This is a one-year type, struck in bronze and scalloped. Cyprus, seized from the Turks by the British in 1878, was given a quasi-sterling coinage where nine piastres = one shilling.

Recorded mintage: 1,080,000.

Specification: bronze.

Catalog reference: KM 30.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.

Link to:

• Cyprus 1926 1/4 piastre
• Cyprus 1938 1/2 piastre
• Cyprus 1940 18 piastres
• Cyprus 1949 2 shillings
• Coins and currency dated 1949
• return to coins of Cyprus