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10 Pesos Moneda Obsidional
| Issuer | Empresa Cubana de Acuñaciones |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Currency | Cuban Peso (moneda nacional, 1914-date) |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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| Mintage | 2010 - Proof - 12,000 |
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The term *moneda obsidional* — siege money — carries specific historical weight in Cuban numismatics, referencing emergency coinage traditions that date to periods of blockade and economic isolation. This 2010 issue by the Empresa Cubana de Acuñaciones revisits that concept decades after Cuba's most acute hard-currency crises of the Special Period, when the collapse of Soviet subsidies in the early 1990s left the island's monetary system effectively bifurcated between the peso and the dollar-adjacent convertible peso.
KM#926 is a collector piece, not an emergency issue — the obsidional designation here is commemorative rather than functional.