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Description:
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.
From 1991, the coin displays new coat of arms (KM#55.3).
Reverse
Shows an exhibit to be found in the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia. It is a fourteenth century silver bowl with wishbone handle. The value 5 below.
Starting in 1985, the value number is surrounded with a double line (KM#55.2 and KM#55.3) instead of a single one (KM#55.1)
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