10 Pesos Santa Maria

The Santa María coin series drew on Cuba's longstanding use of Columbus iconography as a nationalist touchstone — an irony not lost on historians, given the island's complicated relationship with Spanish colonialism. KM#811 is one of several Cuban silver issues from the early 2000s produced primarily for the collector export market, a revenue strategy Havana leaned on heavily during the post-Soviet economic contraction known as the Special Period.