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100 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1961 |
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| Currency | Cuban Peso (moneda nacional, 1914-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA CIEN CIEN PESOS PESOS CARLOS MANUEL DE CESPEDES GARANTIZADO INTEGRAMENTE CON EL ORO, CAMBIO EXTRANJERO CONVERTIBLE EN ORO Y TODOS LOS DEMÁS ACTIVOS DEL BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA. ESTE BILLETE CONSTITUYE UNA OBLIGACIÓN DEL ESTADO CUBANO. (Translation: National Bank of Cuba One hundred One hundred Pesos Pesos Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Fully Guaranteed with the gold, foreign exchange convertible into gold and all the other assets of the National Bank of Cuba This note constitutes an obligation of the Cuban State.) |
| Reverse description | Large vignette illustrating the armed attack on the Moncada Barracks of 26 July 1953; REPUBLICA DE CUBA across the top; face value in numerals in both lateral margins. The design commemorates the pivotal event that launched the Cuban revolutionary movement. |
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Cuba's shift to Czechoslovak printing in the early 1960s was a direct consequence of the U.S. trade embargo and the collapse of relations with the American Banknote Company, which had supplied Cuban notes for decades. The Státní Tiskárna Cenin contract was part of a broader realignment of Cuban economic infrastructure toward the Eastern Bloc following the Revolution.
P#99 is among the first issues produced under that arrangement. The 1961 date places it squarely in the period between the Bay of Pigs invasion in April and the formal declaration of Cuba as a socialist state in December of that year — a politically turbulent window during which currency confidence was far from guaranteed.