Details
LOT 2686
World Coins - Cyprus - 1884 - One Piastre Dated 1884 A.D.
Obv: profile bust facing left, wearing a coronet with decoration of oak leaves and scrolls, VICTORIA QUEEN legend around and the date of the issue below. Rev: 1 within a circle of beads and in a circle the inscription: · CYPRUS · ONE PIASTRE, engraver Leonard Charles Wyon. Fine with scars. Extremely rare in any grade, with only 18,000 pieces coined.(11.58 grams.). [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a 1990s English collection.
Property of an Essex gentleman.
Literature
KM# 3.2.
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