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1 Peso Nationalization of Banking and Martí death
| Issuer | Banco Central de Cuba |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of José Martí in portrait, with the overprint SPECIMEN to the right of his face. The issuer name BANCO CENTRAL DE CUBA runs along the top, with the face value UN PESO at centre and repeated at lower right and upper left; the national arms appear to the right. An underprint celebrates the 45th anniversary of central banking in Cuba (1950–1995), with the year 1995 inscribed. |
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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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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.