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1 Peso Antonio Maceo
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Engraver(s) | Charles Edward Barber |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms occupies the central field, featuring a shield divided into three sections: the upper portion bears a golden key between two rocky promontories symbolizing Cuba's strategic position, the lower left displays a sun rising over a landscape, and the lower right depicts a royal palm tree. The shield is surmounted by a Phrygian cap atop a fasces, and flanked on either side by a wreath of oak and laurel branches tied at the base. The circular legend REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination 1 PESO is inscribed along the lower rim, with a five-pointed star positioned at each lateral extremity. |
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| Edge | Smooth |
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Antonio Maceo Grajales, the Afro-Cuban general who rose to become one of the most effective military commanders of the Ten Years' War and the subsequent War of Independence, was killed in combat at Punta Brava in December 1896 — just two years before Spain's final defeat. Cuba's socialist government issued a series of commemorative pesos through the late 1970s featuring independence-era heroes, partly as a domestic ideological project tying the 1959 revolution to the nineteenth-century independence struggle. Maceo, whose racial identity made him a particularly pointed choice, appeared on multiple Cuban issues across this period.