10 Pesos Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

Cuba issued this series across three years as part of a broader hard-currency commemorative program — coins struck not for domestic circulation but explicitly for foreign exchange, sold to collectors abroad to generate dollars the Cuban economy desperately needed. Guevara himself was executed in Bolivia in October 1967, and by the late 1980s his image had become one of Cuba's most bankable exports, a commercial irony that would not have been lost on him.