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Details
LOT 3478
Cyprus. Windsor, George V AR Forty-Five Piastres. Dated 1928. Royal mint. Commemorative issue of 50 Years of Cyprus under British Rule.
Designs by Edgar Bertram MacKennal and George Kruger Gray. GEORGIVS V DEI GRA: REX ET IND: IMP:, crowned bust of King George V to left; B.M. in small lettering on truncation / 1878 CYPRUS 1928 FORTY FIVE PIASTRES, two lions in centre; K·G below. KM 19. Good Very Fine.(28.24gr, 39mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
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