10 Centavos INTUR - large '10'

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.