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10 Pesos Alexander von Humboldt
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Currency | Cuban Peso (moneda nacional, 1914-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE CUBA 1/10OZ 3.11G. AU 0.999 (Translation: Republic of Cuba 1/10 oz 3.11g. Gold 0.999) |
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Cuba issued this piece in 1989 as part of a broader hard-currency program targeting foreign collectors and investors — gold coins Cuba could not afford to keep but desperately needed to sell. Humboldt spent 1800–1801 in Cuba, documenting the island's geography, climate, and slave-based sugar economy with the same obsessive precision he applied everywhere. His published findings on Cuban slavery were pointed enough that Spanish colonial authorities took notice.