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10 Pesos La Giralda Tower
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1991 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms occupies the central field, featuring a shield with a royal palm, rising sun, and key between two coastlines, supported by a fasces and an oak branch tied with a ribbon; a Phrygian cap surmounts the shield. The circular legend REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs along the upper periphery. The denomination 10 PESOS appears in the lower portion of the field, while the weight designation 1 OZ and fineness AG 0.999 are inscribed on the left and right sides of the shield respectively. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE CUBA 1 OZ 10 PESOS AG 0.999 (Translation: Republic of Cuba 1 ounce 10 Pesos silver 0.999) |
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Cuba's hard-currency commemorative program of the late 1980s and early 1990s was explicitly designed to generate foreign exchange, not domestic circulation — these pieces were sold directly to European and North American collectors while the Cuban peso remained unconvertible. La Giralda's appearance in this series reflects a broader pattern of the Cuban mint leveraging Spanish architectural heritage as commercial subject matter for the Western collector market, a pragmatic calculation that had nothing to do with Cuban history and everything to do with which themes moved inventory abroad.