Issuer Cyprus
Period Republic (1960-date)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 1985-1990
Value 5 Cents (Sent) (0.05 CYP)
Currency Pound (decimalized, 1983-2007)
Composition Nickel brass
Weight 3.75 g
Diameter 22 mm
Thickness 1.40 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Obverse
Cyprus coat of arms (A dove holding an olive twig and the independence year 1960), laurel twigs around.
Country name (Cyprus) in Greek, Turkish and English.
Reverse
Shows an exhibit to be found in the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia. It is a fourteenth century B. C. silver bowl with wishbone handle. The value 5 below.
What's in the box
1 x Coin
