1 Peso Simon Bolivar

Cuba issued a substantial series of commemorative copper-nickel pesos throughout the 1980s and early 1990s targeting the international collector market, often depicting Latin American independence figures with little connection to Cuban domestic monetary use. Most never circulated. Bolívar is an unusual choice for Havana — a Venezuelan general who died in 1830, a full century before the Cuban Revolution, and whose political philosophy was fundamentally republican rather than socialist.