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1 Peso Havana Great Theater
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Value | 1 Peso (1 CUP) |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms occupies the central field, depicting a shield quartered with a key and two rocky promontories over water, flanked by an oak branch on the left and a laurel branch on the right, surmounted by a Phrygian cap on a pole. The country name REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs along the upper legend, while the denomination 1 PESO appears in the lower legend. Two five-pointed stars flank the legends on either side. |
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| Reverse description | A detailed architectural rendering of the facade of the Gran Teatro de La Habana (Havana Great Theatre) dominates the central field, presented in a realistic engraved style. The curved legend GRAN TEATRO DE LA HABANA arcs along the left and upper periphery of the design. The commemorative inscription 150 ANIVERSARIO and the dates 1838-1988 appear in the upper left portion of the field, marking the 150th anniversary of the theatre's founding. |
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Cuba's commemorative peso program of the 1980s was a hard-currency operation — these coins were never intended for domestic circulation but were sold abroad to generate foreign exchange for a government starved of it by the U.S. embargo. The Havana Great Theater, inaugurated in its current form in 1838 as the Tacón Theater, was one of the largest opera houses in the Western Hemisphere at the time of its construction, commissioned by the island's Captain-General Miguel Tacón largely as a vanity project during his notoriously authoritarian tenure.