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5 Pounds
| Issuer | Central Bank of Cyprus |
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| Year | 1997-2003 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio vignette of an archaic limestone head of a young man at left centre, rendered in deep carmine on a multicolour guilloche underprint, with the Cypriot arms at centre. A denomination panel in dark purple with the £5 numeral appears at upper left, and a holographic foil square is affixed at upper right. The lower border carries a decorative band of geometric motifs in dark purple, incorporating the serial number at lower left and a £5 numeral at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a vignette of the Peristerona mosque standing adjacent to the Byzantine Church of St. Barnabas and Hilarion, the latter distinguished by its five domes arranged in a cruciform plan. The architectural scene is rendered in multicolour intaglio against a light guilloche background, with the bilingual bank title and denomination inscriptions framing the composition. |
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Pick 58 was printed by two separate contractors — De La Rue in London and Oberthur Fiduciaire in France — across the same issue period, a split arrangement that occasionally produces subtle but detectable differences in ink density and surface texture between examples from each printer. Neither source is formally distinguished by suffix in the Pick catalogue, which frustrates precise attribution without close comparison.
Cyprus joined the eurozone on 1 January 2008, rendering the entire pound series obsolete overnight. The 5 Pound notes issued under this type were demonetized simultaneously, with a fixed conversion rate of 0.585274 Cyprus pounds per euro.