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1 Peso Karl Marx
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 2002 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | KARL MARX 2002 |
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Cuba issued a series of commemorative peso coins honoring international socialist figures throughout the 1980s and 1990s, a program that intensified after the Soviet collapse left the island economically isolated and politically committed to ideological signaling through its currency. Marx himself never visited Cuba and had no direct connection to the island's revolutionary tradition — his inclusion reflects Castro's deliberate alignment with European Marxist theory rather than any biographical link.
KM#856 is part of a broader collector-oriented output from the Casa de la Moneda during the late Special Period, when hard currency from numismatic exports was a meaningful revenue stream.