Cypriot Pound (CYP)
a.k.a. CYP, Cyprus pound
Cyprus's former currency, code CYP, replaced by the euro in 2008.
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Cyprus's former currency, code CYP, replaced by the euro in 2008.
The Cypriot pound (CYP) was used until Cyprus adopted the euro on 1 January 2008.
Five years later, Cyprus became the setting for one of the eurozone's most dramatic banking crises, with a bail-in of large depositors.
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