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10 Pesos Baseball
| Issuer | Empresa Cubana de Acuñaciones |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Currency | Cuban Peso (moneda nacional, 1914-date) |
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| Reverse description | The central field depicts a dynamic baseball game scene set against a background motif of a baseball. To the right, rotated 90 degrees, a three-line curved legend reads XI JUEGOS PANAMERICANOS, referencing the 11th Pan American Games. To the left, also rotated 90 degrees, a curved legend carries the event logo and host city designation HABANA/91. The issue date 1990 and mintmark appear in the lower left of the field beneath the central image. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Cuba's sports-themed silver program of the late 1980s and early 1990s was driven less by collector demand than by hard currency need — the state mint issued dozens of these pieces specifically for export sale, funneling foreign exchange back into an economy increasingly strangled by the collapse of Soviet subsidies. Baseball was an obvious choice: Cuba had dominated amateur international competition for decades, and the sport carried genuine ideological weight as a point of national pride explicitly contrasted against professional American leagues.
The Empresa Cubana de Acuñaciones issued so many thematic one-year types across this period that individual mintages are rarely documented in official sources.