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1 Peso Solenodon
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms is centrally displayed within the field, comprising a shield partitioned into three sections: a golden key between two landmasses at the chief, horizontal blue and white stripes across the fess, and a royal palm rising before a setting sun in base. The shield is flanked by an oak branch to the dexter and a laurel branch to the sinister, bound together at the base, with a Phrygian cap surmounting a pike above. The curved legend REPUBLICA DE CUBA is inscribed along the upper periphery, while the denomination 1 PESO appears at the lower rim, each flanked by a five-pointed star. |
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| Edge | Smooth |
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Cuba's wildlife conservation coin series of the early 1980s was issued primarily for the international collector market, with limited domestic circulation — a common strategy among socialist states seeking hard currency without depleting gold or silver reserves. The solenodon depicted here is the Solenodon cubanus, a venomous insectivore whose lineage diverged from other placental mammals roughly 76 million years ago. By 1981 it was already considered critically endangered, pushed to the margins of eastern Cuba by introduced predators and habitat loss.