1 Peso Johann Sebastian Bach

Cuba's hard-currency collector series of the 1980s was explicitly designed to generate foreign exchange, not for domestic circulation — pesos from this program were sold abroad to numismatists while ordinary Cubans used a parallel currency system. Bach appears here as part of a broader cultural figures subset within that series, an ideologically convenient choice: the socialist state could celebrate European high culture while the coins quietly earned convertible currency from Western collectors.