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1 Peso Chalicotherium
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Composition | Nickel plated steel (NBS (Nickel Bonded Steel)) |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms occupies the central field, featuring a shield divided into three sections with a key, royal palm, and striped sky, supported by a fasces and an oak branch tied with a ribbon, surmounted by a Phrygian cap on a pole. The circular legend REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination 1 PESO is inscribed along the lower periphery. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Cuba's early 1990s prehistoric fauna series arrived at a specific moment of economic desperation — the collapse of Soviet subsidies had triggered the "Special Period in Time of Peace," and the Cuban mint pivoted aggressively toward foreign-currency collector issues to generate hard currency the domestic economy could not. This coin never circulated in Cuba in any meaningful sense.
The Chalicotherium, an odd-toed ungulate that went extinct roughly 3.5 million years ago, had no particular connection to Cuban paleontology — its fossils are associated primarily with Africa and Eurasia.