1 Peso Juan de la Cosa

Juan de la Cosa was the Basque cartographer who sailed with Columbus on the 1492 voyage and later produced the earliest surviving European world map to depict the Americas, drawn around 1500. Cuba's hard-currency collector series of the late 1980s and early 1990s targeted the international numismatic market rather than domestic circulation — peso-denominated coins in copper-nickel from this program were essentially export products, sold abroad for foreign exchange the government badly needed as Soviet subsidies began to collapse.