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10 Pesos Bolivar and Marti
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Weight | 31.1 g |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms occupies the central field, depicting a shield with a key between two promontories and a rising sun, flanked by an oak branch on the left and a laurel branch on the right, surmounted by a Phrygian cap on a lance. The legend REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination 10 PESOS runs along the lower periphery. The weight and fineness designations 1 OZ and AG 0.999 appear in the side fields, attesting to the coin's one-troy-ounce fine silver content. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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This issue belongs to a Cuban commemorative series pairing Simón Bolívar with José Martí — a politically deliberate coupling that the Castro government promoted heavily from the 1970s onward to position Cuba within a broader Latin American revolutionary tradition rather than as an isolated socialist state. The Banco Nacional de Cuba produced numerous silver issues in the early 1990s almost exclusively for the export collector market, as hard currency shortages following the Soviet collapse made foreign numismatic sales one of the few reliable income streams available.