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1 Peso INTUR
| Issuer | Instituto Nacional de Turismo (INTUR) |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field bears the stylized INTUR logotype, consisting of bold sans-serif lettering integrated with a horizontal banded rectangular device suggestive of a stylized boat or horizon bar. A tall Cuban royal palm tree rises from the center of the logo, its fronds spreading across the upper field, with a second smaller palm visible behind it to the right. The denomination UN PESO is inscribed in a plain legend along the lower rim, with an unadorned field surrounding the central device. |
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Cuba's INTUR pesos were issued specifically for use by foreign tourists, part of a dual-currency system designed to capture hard currency while preventing visitors from accessing the regular peso economy. These tokens circulated only within tourist-designated hotels, shops, and restaurants — the so-called "dollar stores" — effectively creating a parallel economy segregated by nationality and access.
The 1981 date places this issue in the early years of the system's expansion, when the Castro government was aggressively courting Western European and Canadian tourism as a dollar-earning mechanism following the U.S. embargo's continued pressure on foreign exchange reserves.