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100 Pesos 40th. Moncada Anniversary
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Reverse description | A bold left-facing bust portrait of Fidel Castro dominates the central field, depicted wearing his characteristic military cap and open-collared military jacket with a star insignia visible at the shoulder. The portrait is rendered in high relief with fine detail to the beard and facial features. The commemorative legend 40 ANIVERSARIO DEL MONCADA arcs along the upper periphery, and the date 1993 appears to the right of the bust in the field. A small engraver's mark appears below the date. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Moncada Barracks assault of July 26, 1953 — a failed attack by Fidel Castro and roughly 160 fighters on Batista's garrison in Santiago de Cuba — became the symbolic origin point of the Cuban Revolution despite ending in immediate military defeat and the capture or killing of most participants. Cuba has commemorated the date repeatedly in gold, and this 1993 issue marks exactly four decades since the assault.
The .999 fineness places it among Cuba's finer bullion-grade commemoratives of the period, issued largely for the export collector market rather than domestic circulation.