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10 Pesos F. Castro and C. Cienfuegos
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Composition | Silver (.999) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a scene of Camilo Cienfuegos and Fidel Castro in conversation, rendered in high relief against a plain field. A four-line commemorative inscription arcs along the upper portion of the coin, recording the occasion being honored. The dates 1959 and 1989 appear alongside a mintmark at the right, marking the thirtieth anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. |
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| Mintage | 1989 - KM# 243.1; JMA# 466 - reeded strips in arms, thin wreath; Proof version - 1,000 1989 - KM# 243.1; JMA# 469 - reeded strips in arms, thin wreath; BU version - 5,000 1989 - KM# 243.2; JMA# 466 - plain strips in arms, thick wreath; Proof version - 1989 - KM# 243.2; JMA# 469 - plain strips in arms, thick wreath; BU version - |
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This piece belongs to a Cuban commemorative program that expanded aggressively through the late 1980s, when the Castro government used silver proof issues — largely targeted at foreign collectors and dealers — as a hard currency revenue stream. With the Soviet subsidy beginning to contract, these coins were less about domestic commemoration than about extracting dollars from the international numismatic market.
The pairing of Castro with Cienfuegos is politically loaded: Camilo Cienfuegos disappeared in October 1959, his light aircraft vanishing over the sea under circumstances never satisfactorily explained.