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10 Pesos Piet Heyn
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms occupies the central field, depicted in full heraldic detail. The legend REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs along the upper periphery, while the face value 10 PESOS is inscribed along the lower rim. The coin's weight and fineness specifications — 20G AG 0.999 — appear on either side of the arms in the field, confirming the silver content of the issue. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE CUBA 20G AG 0.999 10 PESOS (Translation: Republic of Cuba 20g. silver 0.999 10 Pesos) |
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Piet Heyn is remembered primarily for the 1628 capture of the Spanish silver fleet in Matanzas Bay — the only time in history an entire treasure fleet was taken intact. The haul, roughly 11.5 million guilders in silver and goods, funded the Dutch West India Company's subsequent military campaigns and briefly broke Spain's stranglehold on Atlantic bullion flows. Cuba's decision to commemorate a Dutch privateer who humiliated Spanish colonial power off its own coastline carries a certain irony that the issuing authority almost certainly appreciated.