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1 Peso Chess
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms occupies the central field, depicting a shield quartered with a key, royal palm tree, and horizontal stripes, surmounted by a Phrygian cap on a pole and flanked by sprigs of laurel and oak tied with a ribbon. Two five-pointed stars flank the shield at mid-field. The legend REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs along the upper periphery in raised Latin lettering, while the denomination 1 PESO is inscribed in the lower field. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Cuba's commemorative peso program of the 1980s was largely export-driven — these pieces were struck for hard currency sales abroad rather than domestic circulation, as the peso's inconvertibility made foreign collector markets the only viable outlet. The chess theme reflects Cuba's genuine international stature in the sport: following the 1966 Olympiad held in Havana and Fidel Castro's personal promotion of chess as a revolutionary intellectual pursuit, the island produced multiple world-class grandmasters and hosted elite international competition throughout the Soviet period.