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5 Shillings
| Issuer | Government of Cyprus |
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| Year | 1952 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Reverse lettering | GOVERNMENT OF CYPRUS |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Cyprus was still a Crown Colony in 1952, and this note was issued under that administration — the same political arrangement that would collapse under EOKA pressure within three years of this series entering circulation. Bradbury Wilkinson had a long relationship with British colonial currency work, and their intaglio printing kept quality consistent across issues that were, in practice, produced for a population increasingly hostile to the issuing authority.
The 5 Shilling denomination was the lowest in the Government of Cyprus series, used heavily in daily trade. Notes at this face value typically show the most wear, and genuinely uncirculated examples of P#30 are harder to find than the higher denominations.