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1 Peso Alexander von Humboldt
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Currency | Cuban Peso (moneda nacional, 1914-date) |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms occupies the central field, featuring the royal palm within a shield flanked by an oak branch and a laurel branch, with a Phrygian cap atop the shield and a rising sun in the background. The legend REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination 1 PESO is inscribed below the arms. Two five-pointed stars flank the central design at either side, serving as decorative separators between the legend and the face value. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Cuba issued this coin in 1989 to mark the 160th anniversary of Humboldt's publication of his landmark work on the geography of Cuba and New Spain. Humboldt visited the island twice — in 1800 and 1804 — and his political writings were notably critical of Spanish colonial administration and the island's slave economy, observations that made him a complicated figure to celebrate under any Cuban government, yet he has been claimed by both pre- and post-revolutionary Cuba as a national intellectual patron.