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10 Pesos Vasco da Gama
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Value | 10 Pesos 10 CUP = EUR 0.33 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 1469-1524 2002 VASCO DA GAMA |
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Cuba's commemorative silver program of the early 2000s leaned heavily on Iberian exploration themes, partly as a cultural gesture toward Spain during a period when bilateral trade and tourism investment from Madrid were politically significant to Havana. Da Gama's 1498 opening of the sea route to India — achieved by rounding the Cape of Good Hope — is the specific event this issue honors, distinct from Columbus's Atlantic crossing, which Cuba had already worked through in earlier commemorative runs.