Description:
Obverse
Cyprus coat of arms (A dove holding an olive twig and the independence year 1960), laurel twigs around.
Country name in Greek, Turkish and English.
From 1991 the laurel twigs no longer touch the shield (KM#53.3).
Reverse
Face Value, stylised bird in front of a tree branch from a jug of bichrome ware of the Cyproarchaic period.
Starting in 1985, the value number is surrounded with a double line (KM#53.2 and KM#53.3) instead of a single one (KM#53.1).
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