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10 Pesos Ptolomeo and Toscanelli
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE CUBA 20G 10 PESOS AG 0.999 (Translation: Republic of Cuba 20g. 10 Pesos Silver 0.999) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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This piece belongs to a Cuban commemorative series honoring figures connected to Columbus's 1492 voyage, issued for the quincentennial. Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli was the Florentine cosmographer whose 1474 letter and accompanying map — sent to the Portuguese court and later, reportedly, to Columbus directly — provided the theoretical basis for a westward Atlantic route to Asia. The geography was wrong by roughly 6,000 miles, but it was convincing enough.
Ptolemy's inclusion ties to Toscanelli's reliance on the second-century Geographia, which systematically underestimated the Earth's circumference.