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10 Pesos Heroic Guerilla Fighter
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1992 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse lettering | GUERRILLERO HEROICO 1967-1992 ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA (Translation: Heroic Guerilla Fighter 1967 - 1992 Ernesto Che Guevara) |
| Edge | Reeded |
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Cuba's early 1990s silver program coincided almost exactly with the collapse of Soviet subsidies — the so-called "Special Period" — when hard currency became desperately scarce and the state leaned heavily on numismatic exports to generate foreign exchange. These pieces were never intended for domestic circulation and were sold almost entirely through overseas dealers and collector networks.
The "Heroic Guerilla Fighter" title references Che Guevara's famous Alberto Korda photograph of 1960, which by the 1990s had become one of the most commercially reproduced images in the world — a fact Cuba leveraged deliberately.