10 Pesos

The Banco Español de la Habana occupied an awkward position in colonial Cuba — nominally a private institution, it functioned as the crown's financial instrument on the island, and its notes circulated under the persistent shadow of Spanish fiscal mismanagement. The 1869–1871 dating bracket places this note squarely within the Ten Years' War, Cuba's first major independence uprising, which wrecked trade, disrupted sugar revenues, and strained confidence in paper currency across the island.

ABNC held the printing contract throughout this period, producing notes of characteristically high engraving quality at their New York facilities — a political irony not lost on Cuban insurgents that the colony's money was manufactured in the United States.