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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 description | Portrait of José Martí in an oval vignette at right, rendered in intaglio against a blue and black underprint; the central field carries the patriotic inscription 'Con todos y para el bien de todos' attributed to Martí. The face value appears at right, with the issuer title across the top, and a red seal of the Banco Nacional de Cuba at left flanking the denomination. |
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| 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.