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10 Pesos Queen Isabella
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Engraver(s) | Obverse: Charles Edward Barber Reverse: Belisario Álvarez Collado |
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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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| Reverse lettering | ★ V CENTENARIO ★ 1990 ELISABET ★ 1492 ★ HISP • REG (Translation: 5th Centenary 1990 Isabella 1492 Spanish Queen) |
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This piece was struck as part of Cuba's prolific commemorative program of the late 1980s and early 1990s, during which the Castro government issued dozens of silver and gold collector coins almost exclusively for the foreign hard-currency market. Domestically, the Cuban peso was not convertible, and these coins never circulated on the island. They were a revenue mechanism, plain and simple — foreign exchange earned through numismatic exports at a time when the Soviet subsidy was collapsing.
The Isabella theme connects to the quincentenary commemorations building toward 1992, the 500th anniversary of Columbus's first voyage, for which Cuba — as a Spanish colonial landing point — had particular historical standing to issue.