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1 Peso 50th Anniversary of United Nations
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | At center, the Cuban national coat of arms depicts a shield quartered with a key between two promontories and a rising sun, supported by an oak branch and laurel branch tied with a ribbon, surmounted by the Phrygian cap atop a pike. A curved legend above reads 'REPUBLICA DE CUBA' and the face value '1 PESO' appears in the lower field. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Cuba's commemorative program in the 1990s was extraordinarily prolific — the Banco Nacional issued dozens of collector-targeted pieces annually during the dollar crisis that followed the Soviet collapse, when hard currency from foreign coin sales mattered far more than any numismatic occasion being marked. The UN's 50th anniversary gave a pretext shared by mints worldwide that year, and Cuba was one of scores of countries to produce nearly identical commemorative concepts for the same event.
KM#523 is copper-nickel; a silver variant was struck for the same occasion.