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1 Peso Flora del Caribe - Ruellia Tuberosa
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#619 |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE CUBA 1 PESO |
| Reverse description | A polychrome enameled depiction of Ruellia tuberosa in full bloom occupies the central field, rendered in vivid green for the stem and leaves, with blue and light blue trumpet-shaped flowers extending across the design. The legend 'FLORA DEL CARIBE' arcs along the upper rim in raised Latin letters. The species name 'Ruellia tuberosa' is inscribed in cursive along the lower portion of the field, and the date '1997' appears to the right in the field. |
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Cuba's Flora del Caribe series was issued through the 1990s partly as a hard-currency earner during the Special Period — the prolonged economic crisis that followed the Soviet collapse and the tightening of the U.S. embargo. Collector coins became one of several unconventional foreign-exchange mechanisms the Cuban state deployed when sugar revenues and Soviet subsidies simultaneously evaporated. Ruellia tuberosa, a widespread weed across the Caribbean basin, is an unremarkable botanical choice — which suggests the series was exhausting its more prestigious subjects by the time this piece was struck.