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10 Centavos INTUR - large '10'
| Issuer | Instituto Nacional de Turismo (INTUR), Cuba |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Composition | Copper-nickel |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central device features the stylised logo of the Instituto Nacional de Turismo (INTUR), incorporating a Royal Palm tree (Roystonea regia), Cuba's national tree, as its principal element. To the right of the logo, the large numeral '10' denotes the face value, rendered in the large-digit variety (3.5 mm) characteristic of KM#415.1. Along the lower portion of the field, the denomination in words 'DIEZ CENTAVOS' is inscribed, with the currency identifier 'INTUR' completing the reverse legend. |
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Cuba's INTUR coinage was introduced to create a parallel hard-currency system for foreign visitors, preventing tourists from accessing the regular peso economy while still allowing them to spend within state-controlled hotels, restaurants, and dollar shops. The large-numeral variety distinguishes this from the KM#415.2 issue, a die modification made early in production whose exact timing is unrecorded but whose existence confirms at least two distinct working-die generations within the 1981 emission.