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10 Pesos Blackbeard
| Issuer | Banco Central de Cuba |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Value | 10 Pesos (10 CUP) |
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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) |
| Reverse description | The reverse features a vivid polychrome applied color scene set within a central medallion, depicting Blackbeard the pirate engaged in a fierce sword-fighting melee with multiple figures on a dock or ship's deck, with a treasure chest visible in the foreground. The name BLACKBEARD is inscribed in raised letters along the upper arc of the inner medallion. The outer border carries the series legend PIRATAS DEL CARIBE arcing across the top, flanked by two five-pointed stars at either side, with the date 1995 in the lower exergue. The combination of the polished silver field and the colorized central scene creates a striking bicolor effect characteristic of this Pirates of the Caribbean commemorative series. |
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Cuba's hard-currency commemorative program of the 1990s was driven almost entirely by the dollar shortage following Soviet subsidy collapse, with the Banco Central producing silver pieces explicitly for export sale to foreign collectors rather than domestic circulation. These were never legal tender in any practical sense on the island itself.
Edward Teach operated primarily out of Nassau before its suppression by Governor Woodes Rogers in 1718 — the same year Teach was killed off Ocracoke Inlet by Lieutenant Robert Maynard's forces. Cuba's geographic proximity to those Caribbean hunting grounds gives the issuer a loose regional claim, though the connection is more commercial than historical.