1 Peso Santisima Trinidad

Cuba issued a substantial series of collector-oriented copper-nickel pesos throughout the 1980s, targeting the hard-currency tourist market rather than domestic circulation — ordinary Cubans were using the parallel peso convertible system, and these coins rarely, if ever, passed through Cuban hands in trade. The Santísima Trinidad depicted here was a Spanish 74-gun third-rate ship of the line later rebuilt into an unprecedented four-deck warship, making her the largest warship afloat for much of the 18th century.

She was captured by the British at Trafalgar in 1805 and sank under tow the following day before she could be brought into port.