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10 Pesos 29th. Summer Olympic Games 2008
| Issuer | Banco Central de Cuba |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Currency | Cuban Peso (moneda nacional, 1914-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a dynamic high-relief depiction of a baseball batter in full swing, captured at the moment of impact with the bat raised high, set against a stylized circular backdrop evoking a baseball diamond or stadium arc. The figure is rendered in fine detail with protective helmet, uniform, and batting gloves clearly delineated. The curved legend XXIX Juegos Olimpicos de Verano arcs along the upper and right periphery, with the year 2008 inscribed vertically at the lower right. The mint mark and the year of issue 2006 appear in the exergue at the base of the design. |
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Cuba's Olympic commemorative program was one of the more prolific in the Western Hemisphere during the 2000s, with Havana issuing collector series well ahead of each Games cycle. This piece predates the Beijing Olympics by two years — standard practice for the Cuban mint, which timed releases to maximize foreign collector sales rather than domestic circulation, where hard currency coins were functionally invisible to most Cubans under the dual-currency system that separated the convertible peso from everyday life.