1 Peso J. Marti and F. Castro

Cuba issued a wave of collector-oriented copper-nickel pesos throughout the 1980s, many pairing revolutionary figures in combinations that carried deliberate ideological messaging. Placing José Martí alongside Fidel Castro on a single coin was a calculated act — tying the 19th-century independence martyr directly to the revolutionary government's claim of historical continuity. Martí had been dead for nearly sixty years before Castro was born, and his image had already appeared on Cuban currency under Batista, making this pairing a pointed appropriation of national symbolism.