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1 Peso Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

Issuer Cuba
Year 1989
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Diameter 29.9 mm
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Obverse script Latin
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Issued to mark the twenty-first anniversary of Guevara's death in Bolivia, this was part of a broader Cuban commemorative program that accelerated sharply in the late 1980s as the Soviet subsidy pipeline began to dry up — hard-currency coin sales to foreign collectors had become a meaningful revenue stream for Havana. Guevara himself had served as Cuba's National Bank president from 1959 to 1961, famously signing banknotes with only "Che" in open contempt for the institution.

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