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10 Pesos F. Castro and C. Cienfuegos
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Value | 10 Pesos (10 CUP) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 30 ANIVERSARIO DEL TRIUNFO DE LA REVOLUCION 1959 1989 (Translation: 30th Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution 1959 1989) |
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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.