10 Pesos Gold Tower

The "Gold Tower" designation refers to a Cuban revolutionary-era landmark building in Havana, but the more pointed story here is institutional: by 1992 the Banco Nacional de Cuba was issuing silver collector pieces denominated in pesos at a moment when the peso itself had become functionally worthless for most Cubans, who operated in a shadow dollar economy following the Soviet subsidy collapse. These coins were never intended for domestic circulation — they were hard currency earners, sold abroad to numismatists while the issuing bank's own currency disintegrated at home.