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CURRENCY.
Estimated ,
Amount of Coin)
in Circulation •
at end of rear '
Average rate of exchange on
London for each month of
past vear
List of Coins Current with
relative ralue
Legal tende.- cnrretic** (pap**r ami metallic)
giving particulars und Legislative
Authoritr
Per cent.
January
February
March
April
May...
June
July...
August
September
October
November
I leoember
GOLD.
Sovereign = 180
.1
.'•.
TiT
Diastres -=• f 1
SIIiVEB.
'
Eighteen piastres=2 -j
Nine piastres = I •'-
Four & a half piastres
= 6d.
Three piastres = 4 d .
BRONZE.
!
Piastre = 40 paras \
= 1 -Jd. i
= 20 paras j
=
5'i-
= 10 paras
GOLD.
Sovereign
Value in
Cyprus
piastres.
180
Limit
ol!
tender.
None
SILVER.
Eighteen piastres . . .
Nine piastres
Four & a half piastres-
Three piastres
18
9
li !
£3 =
540 piastres
i do.
| do.
BRONZE.
[
Piastre
40 paras {z*.= 21 piastres
k do
20 .. !
s .
i do
= - * • - '
*^*—• •! la*.
English Gold
£50,000 •
Other Gold
£10,000'
Cyprus Silver
£146,000
Bronze
£11,075
* NOTE .—-
The above es–
timate in re–
spect to gold
is merely no–
minal. There
Authorised by Her lute Majesty's Proclamation
of 17th Septemiier, 1900, published in the j
are n 0 m e a n s
Cyprus Gazette No. 689 of tbe 6th February,
0
r ascertain.
1
90 •"•
ing the infor–
mation. Govt.
holds some
£18,000 in
In force from 30th April, 1901, by Proclamation
of His Excellency dated 3rd January. 1901. sovereigns.
CURRENCY NOTES :
£1 value (Design of (180cp.) j
10- ,. 1917) ' (90..) > None
£5 „
„ (900 „ ') J
Authorised by Proclamation, under Martial
[.aw. of the Fligii Commissioner dated 5th
September. 1917, continued in force by Order
in Council. No. 919, dated 31st January.
1923, Order in Council No. 1021, dated
9th August, 1924, and Order in Council No.
1132, dated 30th August. 1926, and by Order
in Council No. 1101 of 28th December, 1926,
issued under the Provisional Powers Laws,
1919 to 1926.
Esiiraated Amount of Pacer Moucv- ia Circulation at end of vear
Currency in which Account*; are kept
Colonial Government
Private Banks
By Government
By the Public
£46l.0i!9 Id (I
Nil.
Pounds. Shillings and
Cyprus Piastres
Csuallv in Piastres