1 Peso Cuban Trogon

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.