1 Peso

The Banco Nacional de Cuba was established in 1950, replacing a system in which American commercial banks had dominated Cuban monetary infrastructure for decades. These ABNC-printed pesos were among the first notes issued by a genuinely autonomous Cuban central bank — a deliberate policy assertion rather than a routine printing contract.

The series spans the Batista years and runs right up to the revolution. Notes dated into the late 1950s were still being printed in New York even as the political situation deteriorated, and the series was eventually superseded by post-revolutionary issues after 1960. Pick #77 is relatively common in higher grades, ABNC's quality control being what it was.