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1 Peso Che Guerrilla Fighter
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Thickness | 2.9 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE CUBA 30 ANIVERSARIO DE LA CAIDA EN COMBATE DE ERNESTO GUEVARA DE LA SERNA Y SUS COMPAÑEROS 1 PESO (Translation: Republic of Cuba 30th. anniversary of the death in fight of Ernesto Guevara De La Serna and his fellows. 1 Peso) |
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| Reverse lettering | GUERRILLERO HEROICO 1967 1997 che (signature) (Translation: Heroic Guerrilla Fighter 1967 1997 che (Guevara's signature)) |
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This issue belongs to a series of Cuban commemoratives produced through the state-run ETECSA and Casa de la Moneda in the mid-1990s, a period when the Cuban government was generating hard currency through collector coin programs following the economic collapse triggered by Soviet withdrawal. The 1997 date lands precisely on the thirtieth anniversary of Guevara's death in Bolivia — October 9, 1967 — and the timing was deliberate, coinciding with a wave of official commemorations that also saw his remains repatriated from Bolivia to Santa Clara that same year.