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1 Peso Butterfly Flower
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#46, JMA#AAEE035 |
| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms occupies the central field, depicting a shield divided into three sections featuring a royal palm, a rising sun over mountains and sea, and the Cuban national symbol of the key to the Gulf of Mexico, all flanked by an oak branch on the left and a laurel branch on the right, surmounted by the Phrygian cap atop a fasces. The curved legend REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination 1 PESO is inscribed in the lower field. Two five-pointed stars flank the coat of arms at the nine and three o'clock positions. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Cuba launched an ambitious series of collector-oriented peso issues in the late 1970s and early 1980s, partly to generate hard currency from foreign numismatic markets at a time when the U.S. embargo severely limited the island's access to dollar-denominated trade. This piece belongs to that program. The domestic population had little reason to handle it — these were effectively export products dressed as coinage.