Catalog
100 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Central de Cuba |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Size | 150 × 70 mm |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette shows the Tribuna Antimperialista José Martí in Ciudad de La Habana, with its distinctive arched metal framework and a standing figure of José Martí in the foreground, rendered in intaglio on a rose-red guilloche ground. The numeral 100 appears at upper left and lower right, with a watermark window area visible at right. |
| Reverse lettering | REPÚBLICA DE CUBA 100 TRIBUNA ANTIMPERIALISTA "JOSE MARTI" CIUDAD DE LA HABANA (Translation: Republic of Cuba / 100 / Anti-Imperialist Tribune "José Martí" / City of Havana) |
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Cuba's Series 2001 banknotes were printed by the Canadian Bank Note Company — a contract that raised eyebrows given the U.S. embargo's reach into financial infrastructure, but Canada was never party to those restrictions. The 100 Peso denomination circulated at a time when the Cuban Peso was effectively a parallel currency to the Convertible Peso (CUC), and ordinary Cubans were paid in these while hard currency transactions ran through a separate system entirely. A single note represented roughly a month's state salary.
P#124 shares its watermark placement and thread specification with the broader Cuban series of this period — nothing anomalous about the security package, but the CBN printing relationship persisted well into the 2000s.