Evidence coverage: 1879–2008. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
Covered shilling references inCyprus laws/documents meantCyprusshilling/9piastres;contracts defaulted locallegalcurrency.
Sources and qualifications →Cyprus currency inherited sterling reckoning; by1949 domestic contracts and statutory shilling references were explicitly construed in local legalcurrency and Cyprusshillings. Actual local obligation-denomination clauses resolve ancestry beyond metrology. Range denotes emergence before firm1949anchor, not exact1879creation.
Sources and qualifications →Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
Covered shilling references inCyprus laws/documents meantCyprusshilling/9piastres;contracts defaulted locallegalcurrency.
C1484Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.
1 EUR = 0.585274 CYP. Cyprus: euro adoption 2008-01-01; cash 2008-01-01. Regulation 974/98 substitutes the euro for each participating state’s currency on its adoption date; cash changeover is separately defined.
C688, C689, C646Cyprus: euro adoption 2008-01-01; cash 2008-01-01.
C689Corrected interpretation: Revision 27 supplies a new evidence basis for R0314. Actual local obligation-denomination clauses resolve ancestry beyond metrology. Range denotes emergence before firm1949anchor, not exact1879creation. Current evidence: Cyprus currency inherited sterling reckoning; by1949 domestic contracts and statutory shilling references were explicitly construed in local legalcurrency and Cyprusshillings.
C873The Cyprus pound was divided into 1,000 mils.
C874Cyprus replaced mils with 100 cents to the same pound. Subdivision change, not a hundredfold rescaling of pounds.
C875Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
1 EUR = 0.585274 CYP.
art.1, Cyprus currency row; exact decimal retained
Article 2’s original 1999 commencement does not backdate later-added currencies.
Country-specific dates come from the separate 974/98 annex.
Cyprus: euro adoption 2008-01-01; cash 2008-01-01.
Annex, Cyprus row; arts.2–3 provide substitution
Consolidation, not an as-made 1998 text.
National short cash-withdrawal periods and every accession amendment were not individually audited.
Cyprus introduced a local coinage system of 180 piastres per English gold pound. Sterling-derived local unit; gradual replacement of non-British coins. Exact autonomous-currency separation and Ottoman exchange terms remain open.
Corrected interpretation: Revision 27 supplies a new evidence basis for R0314. Actual local obligation-denomination clauses resolve ancestry beyond metrology. Range denotes emergence before firm1949anchor, not exact1879creation. Replacement evidence: C1644.
Printed p. 476, PDF p. 492: 1879 system; 1955 decimalization; 1983 cents
Scholarly survey by collection author, not separately examined royal decrees.
Gradual unit derivation inferred; exact national-currency separation remains open.
The Cyprus pound was divided into 1,000 mils.
Printed p. 476, PDF p. 492: 1879 system; 1955 decimalization; 1983 cents
Scholarly survey by collection author, not separately examined royal decrees.
Gradual unit derivation inferred; exact national-currency separation remains open.
Cyprus replaced mils with 100 cents to the same pound. Subdivision change, not a hundredfold rescaling of pounds.
Printed p. 476, PDF p. 492: 1879 system; 1955 decimalization; 1983 cents
Scholarly survey by collection author, not separately examined royal decrees.
Gradual unit derivation inferred; exact national-currency separation remains open.
Covered shilling references inCyprus laws/documents meantCyprusshilling/9piastres;contracts defaulted locallegalcurrency.
§§5,8
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Cyprus currency inherited sterling reckoning; by1949 domestic contracts and statutory shilling references were explicitly construed in local legalcurrency and Cyprusshillings.
CurrencyLaw1949§§5,8–9,12–13,pp95–97
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
CurrencyLaw1949§§5,8–9,12–13,pp95–97
Scholarly survey by collection author, not separately examined royal decrees.
Gradual unit derivation inferred; exact national-currency separation remains open.
Regulation 974/98 substitutes the euro for each participating state’s currency on its adoption date; cash changeover is separately defined.
arts.1, 1a, 2–3
Consolidation, not an as-made 1998 text.
National short cash-withdrawal periods and every accession amendment were not individually audited.