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1 Peso Fokker Dr.I
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1994 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms occupies the central field, depicting a shield quartered with a royal palm, a golden key between two rock formations, and diagonal blue and white stripes, surmounted by a Phrygian cap on a staff and flanked by an oak branch to the left and a laurel branch to the right, with a fasces tied at the base. The circular legend REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs along the upper periphery in Latin letters. The denomination 1 PESO is inscribed in the lower field beneath the arms. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Cuba's early 1990s commemorative program was largely a hard-currency operation — these coins were struck for export sale to collectors, not for domestic circulation, as the peso had effectively ceased to function as a practical medium of exchange following the Soviet subsidy collapse after 1991. The Fokker Dr.I was chosen as part of a broader aviation series that leaned heavily on European and American subject matter, an odd editorial choice for Havana but commercially predictable given the target buyer.
The Dr.I triplane itself entered service with Jagdgeschwader I in late 1917, most famously associated with Manfred von Richthofen, who was killed flying one in April 1918.