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1 Peso Captain Kidd
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Weight | 14.5 g |
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| Reverse description | A central colorized medallion depicts a full-length figure of the legendary pirate Captain Kidd, dressed in a red coat and yellow breeches, brandishing a sword in his right hand while a Jolly Roger flag with skull-and-crossbones billows behind him; sailing ships appear on the sea in the background. The legend CAPTAIN KIDD is inscribed across the upper portion of the colorized insert. The outer ring bears the series legend PIRATAS DEL CARIBE arcing along the upper periphery, flanked by two five-pointed stars at either side, with the issue date 1995 in the lower exergue. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Captain William Kidd was hanged at Execution Dock in Wapping in 1701, his body left in a gibbet over the Thames as a warning to sailors. His buried treasure — never conclusively located — has generated salvage expeditions across the Caribbean for three centuries, making him a natural fit for Cuba's extensive series of silver and base-metal collector issues targeting the foreign numismatic market during the dollar-starved 1990s.