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10 Pesos Gato montés
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms occupies the central field, depicting a shield divided into three sections featuring a rising sun over a landscape with mountains, a royal palm tree, and a key, surmounted by a Phrygian cap on a pike. The shield is flanked by two branches — an oak branch to the left and a laurel branch to the right — crossed at the base. The curved legend REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs along the upper periphery, and the denomination 10 PESOS appears at the bottom. The fineness and weight inscriptions 20G and AG 0.999 are incused vertically on either side of the shield within the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE CUBA 10 PESOS 20G AG 0.999 |
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Cuba's wildlife coin program, active through the 2000s, was largely aimed at the collector export market rather than domestic circulation — hard currency was the point, not numismatic pride. The Peso Convertible system, introduced in 1994, created a two-tier economy in which commemorative silver issues like this one functioned almost entirely outside the hands of ordinary Cubans.
The Iberian lynx relative depicted here — the Lynx pardinus population historically found in Cuba's Sierra Maestra — was by 2007 already the subject of regional conservation concern, lending these issues a secondary documentary function beyond their bullion value.