Cuba's commemorative silver program of the late 1980s and early 1990s was partly a hard-currency exercise — these pieces were struck for export sale to foreign collectors, not for domestic circulation, at a time when the Cuban economy was about to enter the "Special Period" following the collapse of Soviet subsidies. The 1990 issues were among the last produced before that crisis hit with full force.
Cuba's commemorative silver program of the late 1980s and early 1990s was partly a hard-currency exercise — these pieces were struck for export sale to foreign collectors, not for domestic circulation, at a time when the Cuban economy was about to enter the "Special Period" following the collapse of Soviet subsidies. The 1990 issues were among the last produced before that crisis hit with full force.