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10 Pesos Sir Henry Morgan
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Weight | 20 g |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1995 - Proof - 10,000 |
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Henry Morgan was a Welsh privateer who operated out of Port Royal, Jamaica, under letters of marque from the English crown — raiding Spanish colonial shipping and settlements across the Caribbean with considerable brutality and occasional genius. His 1671 sack of Panama City remains one of the most audacious overland assaults in the hemisphere's colonial history. Cuba, as a former Spanish colonial possession, issues his likeness with a certain historical irony.
This belongs to Cuba's extensive 1990s silver commemorative program, a hard-currency revenue strategy during the Special Period following Soviet collapse.