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1 Peso Tania the Guerrilla Fighter
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms occupies the central field, featuring the traditional shield with a key, a rising sun, and a royal palm tree, surrounded by an oak and laurel wreath tied with a ribbon below. The arc legend REPUBLICA DE CUBA is inscribed along the upper periphery, with the denomination 1 PESO positioned at the base. Two five-pointed stars flank the central device on either side, serving as decorative separators between the inscriptions. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Haydée Tamara Bunke Bider — "Tania" — was an East German-Argentine operative recruited by Cuban intelligence and inserted into Bolivian society under deep cover, eventually becoming the only woman to fight alongside Che Guevara's guerrilla column. Her cover was blown in 1967 before Guevara's capture, and she was killed in an ambush at the Vado del Yeso river in August of that year, two months before Guevara himself was executed. Cuba issued this coin on the 22nd anniversary of her death, part of a broader commemorative program celebrating revolutionary figures the government was actively rehabilitating for the 1989–1990 ideological calendar.