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| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1959-1960 |
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| Currency | Cuban Peso (moneda nacional, 1914-date) |
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| Reverse description | The Cuban coat of arms occupies the central position within a circular guilloche frame, printed in violet. Denomination numerals appear at left and right, with the republic name inscribed across the top. A legal tender clause is set out in full across the lower section of the reverse. |
| Reverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE CUBA 100 100 PESOS PESOS 100 100 CIEN PESOS ESTE BILLETE TIENE CURSO LEGAL Y FUERZA LIBERATORIA ILIMITADA, DE ACUERDO CON LA LEY, PARA EL PAGO DE TODA OBLIGACION CONTRAIDA O ACUMPLIR EN EL TERRITORIO NACIONAL. (Translation: Republic of Cuba 100 100 Pesos Pesos 100 100 One hundred Pesos This note is legal tender and has unlimited liberatory force, in accordance with the law, for payment of all obligations, contracted or to be fulfilled, on the whole national territory) |
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This note sits at the precise hinge of Cuban history. Printed by the American Bank Note Company before the revolutionary government had fully consolidated power, the P#93 series was authorized under the pre-revolutionary banking framework but circulated into the early years of the Castro administration — an awkward overlap that the new government resolved by issuing its own notes and progressively withdrawing earlier stock.
The ABNC contract itself was one of the last the company would fulfill for Cuba. By 1961, nationalization had severed that relationship entirely, and Havana would turn to other printers for subsequent issues.