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1 Peso
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1983-1989 |
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| Weight | 6 g |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms occupies the central field, featuring a shield charged with a key and rising sun between two promontories, surmounted by a Phrygian cap on a pike and flanked by an oak branch to the left and a laurel branch to the right, with the royal palm in the background. The legend REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination UN PESO curves along the lower periphery. A continuous row of denticles frames the design close to the raised rim. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE CUBA UN PESO (Translation: Republic of Cuba One Peso) |
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Cuba's shift to brass peso coinage in the early 1980s came as Soviet subsidy arrangements kept the domestic economy insulated from hard-currency pressures, but chronic shortages of consumer goods meant these coins circulated heavily regardless. The series ran through a period when the dual-currency tension between the regular peso and the convertible peso was becoming increasingly unworkable — a friction that would eventually force the 1994 monetary reforms.