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10 Pesos Volleyball, Piedfort
| Issuer | Empresa Cubana de Acuñaciones |
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| Year | 1990 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms occupies the central field, featuring a shield divided into three sections with a royal palm, a rising sun over mountains, and a key between two promontories, surrounded by an oak and laurel branch tied with a ribbon. A curved legend at the top reads 'REPUBLICA DE CUBA', while the denomination '10 PESOS' appears below the arms. The weight '1 OZ' and the fineness 'AG 0.999' are inscribed in the lateral fields flanking the shield. |
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| Reverse lettering | XI JUEGOS PANAMERICANOS 1990 HABANA/91 (Translation: 11th Pan American Games 1990 Havana '91) |
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Cuba's piedfort sports series from this period was produced almost exclusively for the collector export market, generating hard currency at a time when the U.S. embargo and the imminent collapse of Soviet subsidies were squeezing the island's foreign exchange reserves to a breaking point. The Empresa Cubana de Acuñaciones issued these pieces knowing they would never see domestic circulation — they were convertible-peso diplomacy in coin form.
A piedfort strikes the same dies twice the standard planchet thickness, a French technique dating to medieval assay practice.