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1 Peso
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1959 |
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| Value | 1 Peso (1 CUP) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA UN PESO JOSÉ MARTÍ GARANTIZADO INTEGRAMENTE CON EL ORO, CAMBIO EXTRANJERO CONVERTIBLE EN ORO Y TODOS LOS DEMÁS ACTIVOS DEL BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA. ESTE BILLETE CONSTITUYE UNA OBLIGACIÓN DEL ESTADO CUBANO. (Translation: National Bank of Cuba One Peso José Martí Fully Guaranteed with the gold, foreign exchange. Convertible into gold and all the other assets of the National Bank of Cuba. This note constitutes an obligation of the Cuban State.) |
| Reverse description | The Cuban coat of arms is centered on the reverse, flanked by two sugar cane production vignettes — cane harvesting at left and an industrial processing scene at right. The country name appears across the top, with the face value expressed in both numerals and letters at each end of the note. |
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The 1959 date on this note places it at an uncomfortable historical hinge point — Batista fled Cuba on 1 January 1959, and the revolutionary government inherited a functioning central bank with notes already in production or recently delivered by De La Rue. This series was not immediately replaced; the new government continued circulating Banco Nacional issues while it consolidated control, meaning notes bearing this date passed through hands on both sides of the political rupture.
De La Rue had supplied Cuban banknotes for decades by this point, and the relationship continued well into the early revolutionary period before Cuba eventually shifted printing arrangements.