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10 Pesos F. Castro at the mountain
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1989 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a full-length figure of Fidel Castro in military uniform and cap, standing in three-quarter profile and carrying a rifle, set against a dynamic background of radiating lines emanating from behind the figure to suggest light or revolutionary energy, with a stylised mountain range in the lower field. The word REVOLUCION is inscribed in large bold letters arranged around the right and lower border, with the numeral 30 and the word ANOS appearing in the central right field to denote the 30th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. The commemorative dates 1959 and 1989 are inscribed in two lines in the lower left field, below which a small mint mark appears. |
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| Mint | Casa de la Moneda de Cuba, Havana |
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This piece belongs to a Cuban commemorative program that ran through the late 1980s celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the revolution, issued at a moment when the Soviet subsidies propping up the Cuban economy were already beginning to falter — Gorbachev's reforms were quietly unwinding the preferential oil-for-sugar arrangement that had sustained Havana since the 1960s. The Banco Nacional was producing hard-currency collector pieces partly to generate foreign exchange it increasingly could not earn through trade.
The dual KM and JMA references suggest at least two distinct varieties exist for this type, likely differentiated by finish or edge treatment rather than die design.