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10 Pesos Colossus of Rhodes
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Thickness | 1.6 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE CUBA 15 G 10 PESOS AG 0.999 (Translation: Republic of Cuba 15g. 10 pesos Silver 0.999) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Part of Cuba's long-running "Seven Wonders of the Ancient World" series, this issue belongs to a program that ran through the late 1990s and was produced primarily for the international collector market rather than domestic circulation — hard currency was effectively absent from everyday Cuban economic life under the peso convertible system of that decade. The series was minted under contract and sold through foreign distributors, making Cuban government coffers the primary beneficiary.
The Colossus itself stood at the entrance to Rhodes harbor for roughly 54 years before collapsing in the earthquake of 226 BC — never rebuilt, despite an offer of restoration funds from Ptolemy III of Egypt, which the Rhodians declined on the advice of an oracle.