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1 Peso Miguel de Cervantes

Issuer Cuba
Year 1982
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Value 1 Peso (1 CUP)
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Reverse lettering MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA 1982 1547-1616
(Translation: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1982 1547-1616)
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Cuba's early 1980s hard-currency commemorative program was designed explicitly for foreign exchange, not domestic circulation — these pieces were sold to collectors abroad to generate convertible currency for the Castro government. The Cervantes peso sits within that export-driven series, issued the same year Spain was deepening cultural diplomacy with Latin America ahead of the 1992 quincentenary cycle.

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