Cyprus 1955 5 mils

from the Ma'adi Collection

This bronze five mils was accompanied by three, twenty-five, fifty and one hundred mils coins. Cyprus, off the coast of Turkey, fell to the British in 1878 and was made a crown colony in 1925. It became a republic in 1960 and has been de facto partitioned between the Turkish north and the Greek center and south since the early 1970's.

Recorded mintage: 10,000,000.

Specification: 5.5 g, bronze.

Catalog reference: KM 34.

Source:

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

Link to:

• Cyprus 1970 500 mils
• Cyprus 1978 5 mils
• Coins and currency dated 1955
• return to coins of Cyprus