Catalog
10 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1961-1965 |
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| Size | 150 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Máximo Gómez within an oval vignette at center, his name inscribed below in a cartouche; face value expressed in words appears on both lateral margins, with the issuer title arching across the top. The note is printed in brown tones with red serial numbers. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA DIEZ DIEZ PESOS PESOS MAXIMO GOMEZ GARANTIZADO INTEGRAMENTE CON EL ORO, CAMBIO EXTRANJERO CONVERTIBLE EN ORO Y TODOS LOS DEMÁS ACTIVOS DEL BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA. ESTE BILLETE CONSTITUYE UNA OBLIGACIÓN DEL ESTADO CUBANO. (Translation: National Bank of Cuba Ten Ten Pesos Pesos Máximo Gómez Fully Guaranteed with the gold, foreign exchange convertible into gold and all the other assets of the National Bank of Cuba. This note constitutes an obligation of the Cuban State.) |
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Cuba's shift to Czechoslovak printers after 1960 was a direct consequence of the US trade embargo and the broader realignment of the revolutionary government toward the Eastern Bloc. The Státní Tiskárna Cenin in Prague, which had been producing security documents since the interwar period, took on Cuban currency contracts as part of wider economic cooperation agreements between Havana and Prague.
Pick 96 belongs to the transitional series that retained the "Banco Nacional de Cuba" imprint while the revolutionary government consolidated its monetary institutions — the bank itself was restructured multiple times in the early 1960s before currency reform arrived in 1961.