Catalog
10 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1966 |
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| Size | 150 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central oval vignette carries a portrait of Máximo Gómez with his name inscribed below; the face value appears on both sides in words, and the issuer's name runs across the top. The note is printed in brown tones with red serial numbers. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a vignette of Fidel Castro delivering his speech of 2 September 1960 in Havana, with the country name across the top and the face value in numerals on both sides. The legal tender clause runs along the lower portion of the design. |
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Cuba's shift to Czechoslovak printing partners in the early 1960s was a direct consequence of the U.S. trade embargo, which severed Cuba's access to American Bank Note Company contracts that had supplied much of its pre-revolutionary currency. The Státní Tiskárna Cenin in Prague took over production, and the 1966 series reflects that Eastern Bloc supply chain plainly — the paper stock and intaglio work are competent but lack the depth of earlier ABNC-printed Cuban issues.
Pick 101 belongs to a transitional moment when the Banco Nacional was consolidating denominations after the 1961 monetary reform, which had already replaced Batista-era notes in a rapid, tightly controlled exchange.