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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 in Greek, Turkish and English.
From 1991, the coin displays new coat of arms (KM#62.2).
Reverse
Head of Zeno of Citium (334 BC-262 BC), Greek philosopher from Citium (Greek for Cyprus), he was the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy
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