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1 Peso Nationalization of Banking and Martí death

Issuer Banco Central de Cuba
Year 1995
Type Commemorative banknote
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Obverse lettering UN PESO BANCO CENTRAL DE CUBA AÑO 1995 S 1 PESO 45 ANIVERSARIO P DE LA BANCA E CENTRAL DE CUBA C I M E N AÑO 1995 1 PESO
(Translation: 1 Peso Central Bank of Cuba Year 1995 SPECIMEN 1 Peso 45th Anniversary of Central Banking in Cuba (1950–1995) Year 1995 1 Peso)
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Reverse lettering UN PESO REPUBLICA DE CUBA AÑO DEL CENTENARIO DE LA CAIDA DE JOSE MARTI 1895 1995 SPECIMEN 1 PESO UN PESO ESTE BILLETE TIENE CURSO LEGAL Y FUERZA LIBERATORIA ILIMITADA, DE ACUERDO CON LA LEY, PARA EL PAGO DE TODA OBLIGACION CONTRAIDA O A CUMPLIR EN EL TERRITORIO NACIONAL.
(Translation: 1 Peso Republic of Cuba Year of the Centenary of the Death of José Martí 1895 1995 Specimen 1 Peso 1 Peso This note has unlimited legal tender and liberatory force, in accordance with the law, for the payment of all obligations contracted or to be fulfilled in the national territory.)
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Cuba brought its banknote production entirely in-house in the early 1990s, and this note — printed at the state security printing works in Havana — was among the first fruits of that shift. Prior series had relied on foreign printers, including the Soviet-era GOZNAK. Printing domestically was a political statement as much as a logistical one, made sharper by the Special Period's hard currency shortages that made foreign contracts increasingly difficult to sustain.

The P#114 series commemorates the 1960 nationalization of the Cuban banking sector, one of the earliest and most sweeping structural moves of the Revolution. José Martí's death centenary in 1995 gave the issue its dual commemorative framing.

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