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1 Peso Carlos Manuel de Céspedes
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Currency | Cuban Peso (moneda nacional, 1914-date) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Smooth |
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Carlos Manuel de Céspedes freed his slaves and rang the bell at La Demajagua on October 10, 1868, triggering the Ten Years' War against Spanish colonial rule — an ultimately unsuccessful but foundational conflict in Cuban independence history. This coin was issued nearly a century later under Castro's government, which consistently mined the independence struggles of the 19th century for revolutionary legitimacy. Céspedes had been dead for over a hundred years, but his political usefulness was very much alive.