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1 Peso Esperanto Congress
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Currency | Cuban Peso (moneda nacional, 1914-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A facing bust portrait of Dr. Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof, creator of the Esperanto language, is positioned to the right of the field, with a stylized globe rendered behind him suggesting world unity. Overlaid upon the globe is an outlined map of Cuba incorporating a five-pointed star and the letter E, the universal symbol of Esperanto. The stylized numeral 75 appears prominently in the upper field, commemorating the 75th Universal Esperanto Congress. A curved commemorative legend in Esperanto arcs around the periphery, with the mint mark, place name HAVANO, and year of issue 1990 inscribed in the lower exergue. |
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Cuba issued a small series of commemorative copper-nickel pesos in the late 1980s and early 1990s targeting the international thematic collector market rather than domestic circulation — hard currency generation was the explicit goal. This piece honors the Esperanto movement, the constructed language devised by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887, which by 1990 had survived nearly a century of institutional skepticism, two world wars, and active suppression under Stalin, who viewed Esperanto speakers as a suspicious cosmopolitan network and had many of them shot or sent to the Gulag.