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1 Peso Training ship 'Galatea'
| Issuer | Banco Central de Cuba |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Weight | 25.6 g |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms occupies the central field, depicting a shield divided into three sections: the upper portion features a rising sun over a seascape with a key symbolizing Cuba's strategic position, the lower left bears diagonal blue and white stripes representing the original Cuban flag, and the lower right displays a royal palm tree. The shield is surmounted by a Phrygian cap on a pike and flanked by an oak branch to the left and a laurel branch to the right, the two crossed below the shield. The curved legend 'REPUBLICA DE CUBA' arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination '1 PESO' appears in the lower field. |
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| Reverse description | A highly detailed rendering of the Argentine sail training ship Galatea under full sail occupies the central field, depicted as a three-masted barque with sails billowing and rigging clearly delineated, sailing over stylized ocean waves. The date '2000' appears to the left in the lower field near the waterline. The curved legend 'RELIQUIAS DE LA NAVEGACION' arcs along the upper periphery, while the inscription 'BUQUE ESCUELA "GALATEA"' is incused in two lines along the lower margin. |
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The Galatea is a Spanish Navy training frigate, built in 1896 and still in active service as a sail training vessel — one of the longest-serving ships of her type anywhere in the world. Cuba's decision to feature her reflects the enduring naval ties between the island and Spain, a relationship that survived and outlasted the political ruptures of 1898 in ways that formal history tends to understate.
KM#825 is part of a broader Cuban commemorative peso program from this period that flooded the collector market, keeping secondary market values modest despite low domestic circulation.