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10 Pesos Tania the Guerrilla Fighter
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1988 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms occupies the central field, featuring the traditional shield with a key, rising sun, and royal palm, supported by an oak and laurel branch tied with a ribbon, surmounted by the Phrygian cap on a pike. A curved legend along the upper periphery reads REPUBLICA DE CUBA, with BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA inscribed below, and the denomination 10 PESOS appearing at the bottom of the design. |
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| Reverse description | A right-facing portrait bust of Tamara Bunke, known as Tania la Guerrillera, dominates the central field in a bold, medallic style. The legend TANIA LA GUERRILLERA arcs along the upper periphery. The issue year 1988 appears to the left of the portrait, with the mint mark positioned to the right. The subject's birth and death years, 1937-1967, are inscribed below the bust, accompanied by the fineness and weight indicators PLATA FINA 1OZ 0,999, affirming the coin's one-troy-ounce fine silver content. |
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Tania the Guerrilla Fighter — born Haydée Tamara Bunke Bider in Buenos Aires to German communist émigrés — was an East German-Argentine operative who infiltrated Bolivian high society under a false identity before her cover collapsed in 1967. She died in an ambush at the Vado del Yeso river in August of that year, weeks before Che Guevara's own capture and execution. Cuba elevated her almost immediately to martyrdom, and she remains the only woman formally incorporated into the pantheon of the Cuban revolutionary state.
This 1988 issue belongs to a broader Cuban commemorative silver program that ran through the late 1980s, targeting the collector and hard-currency export market rather than domestic circulation.