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10 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1949-1960 |
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| Value | 10 Pesos (10 CUP) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette consists of an intaglio portrait of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes set within an oval frame, printed in black and brown on a guilloche underprint. To the left, the red circular seal of the Banco Nacional de Cuba is applied in letterpress. Serial numbers appear in red on the 1949 issue and black on the 1960 issue. |
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| Reverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE CUBA DIEZ DIEZ PESOS PESOS ESTE BILLETE TIENE CURSO LEGAL Y FUERZA LIBERATORIA ILIMITADA, DE ACUERDO CON LA LEY, PARA EL PAGO DE TODA OBLIGACION CONTRAIDA O ACUMPLIR EN EL TERRITORIO NACIONAL. (Translation: Republic of Cuba Ten Ten Pesos Pesos This note is legal tender and has unlimited liberatory force, in accordance with the law, for payment of all obligations, contracted or to be fulfilled, on the whole national territory) |
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The Banco Nacional de Cuba was established in 1950, ending Cuba's long reliance on U.S. Federal Reserve notes as functional currency — a dependency that persisted well into the mid-twentieth century. These ABNC-printed pesos were among the first issues to give Cuba genuine central banking infrastructure, and the American Bank Note Company's New York presses produced the entire run for this series.
The Pick 79 issue spans the Batista period and the early revolutionary transition. Notes dated into the late 1950s sometimes surfaced in circulation alongside the 1958–59 Sierra Maestra guerrilla scrip — an odd parallel that collectors occasionally document.