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1 Peso Cuban Trogon
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Value | 1 Peso (1 CUP) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A naturalistic depiction of the Tocororo (Cuban Trogon, Priotelus temnurus), Cuba's national bird, is shown perched and facing left, rendered in fine detail against a plain field. The date 1981 and mintmark appear below the central motif. The upper peripheral legend reads FAUNA CUBANA, denoting the commemorative series, while the lower legend identifies the species as TOCORORO. |
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Cuba's wildlife conservation coin program of the late 1970s and early 1980s emerged partly as a foreign currency initiative — these pieces were struck primarily for sale to collectors abroad, generating hard currency at a moment when the U.S. embargo made dollar acquisition a chronic policy problem. The Tocororo, Cuba's national bird, was a natural choice: its plumage mirrors the Cuban flag, a symbolic alignment that predates the revolution by over a century.
KM#63 is frequently conflated with earlier peso issues from the same series, but the 1981 date distinguishes it from the 1980 proof-only strikes.