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10 Pesos Spotted Eagle Ray
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| In circulation to | 1994 |
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| Reverse description | A Spotted Eagle Ray (Aetobatus narinari) is depicted in left-facing profile, rendered in naturalistic colorized detail against the coin's field, showcasing the species' distinctive spotted dorsal surface and elongated pectoral fins. The curved legend FAUNA DEL CARIBE arcs along the upper periphery, identifying the Caribbean Fauna commemorative series. The date 1994 and the mintmark appear at the lower left of the design. The overall composition reflects the colorized proof technique used for this collector-oriented issue. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Cuba's early 1990s silver program was driven almost entirely by hard currency need rather than numismatic tradition — the collapse of Soviet subsidies after 1991 gutted the island's foreign exchange reserves, and collector coins sold abroad became a meaningful revenue stream. The spotted eagle ray belongs to a run of marine wildlife issues that targeted the European and Japanese collector markets specifically.
KM#502 is among the earlier Cuban colorized issues, at a time when applied color on silver coins was still a novelty technique generating genuine premium pricing. Mintages for these Cuban wildlife pieces were kept deliberately low, though Banco Nacional records from this period are inconsistent.