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10 Pesos Che Guerrilla Fighter
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Engraver(s) | Alejandro Ramos Figueredo |
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| Reverse description | A full-length portrait of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara is depicted in profile, shown walking with a weapon slung across his back, rendered in a heroic and resolute manner. The background features a stylized mountainous landscape evoking the Sierra Maestra, the stronghold of the Cuban revolutionary forces. Curved legends flank the design near the edge on both sides of the field. At the lower right appears Guevara's facsimile signature, while the date of his death (1967) is inscribed to the left and the issue year (1997) appears to the right, accompanied by the mintmark. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Cuba issued this coin in 1997 to mark the thirtieth anniversary of Ernesto Guevara's death in Bolivia, where he was captured by CIA-assisted Bolivian forces on October 8, 1967, and executed the following day at La Higuera. The timing was deliberate — 1997 was also the year Guevara's remains were exhumed from a mass grave near Vallegrande and repatriated to Cuba, where they were interred at a purpose-built mausoleum in Santa Clara.
The JMA reference places this within Cuba's joint foreign-exchange commemorative program, coins produced for hard-currency collectors rather than domestic circulation.