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10 Pesos Arrival to Cuba - Piedfort
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1990 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban National Arms occupies the central field, depicting a shield with a key and rising sun between two promontories, surmounted by the Phrygian cap on a pole and flanked by an oak branch on the right and a laurel branch on the left. The legend REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs along the upper periphery. The weight designation 20G AG appears to the left of the arms, while the fineness 0.999 is inscribed to the right, and the denomination 10 PESOS is placed below. This piedfort issue bears double the standard thickness consistent with its pattern designation. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE CUBA 20G AG 0.999 10 PESOS (Translation: Republic of Cuba 20g. Silver 0.999 10 Pesos) |
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Piedforts — struck at double the normal planchet thickness — have been used since medieval France as presentation pieces and die proofs, and Cuba adopted the format selectively for its collector-oriented silver programs of the late 1980s and early 1990s. This issue commemorates the quincentennial lead-up programming around Columbus's 1492 landfall, a theme Cuba marketed heavily to European and Latin American numismatic buyers during a period when hard currency from coin exports was economically significant to the state.
The JMA reference places it within a tightly catalogued Cuban series; surviving population numbers remain poorly documented outside specialist circuits.