100 Pesos Guama

The "Guamá" series, issued through Cuba's state foreign exchange apparatus in the early 1990s, was designed explicitly to attract hard currency from foreign collectors rather than circulate domestically — a priority forced by the collapse of Soviet subsidies after 1991. Cuba lost roughly 35% of its GDP in three years, and gold proof issues like this one were among the few commodities the state could mint and sell abroad for dollars.

Guamá was a Taíno chief who led prolonged resistance against Spanish colonizers in western Cuba until his death around 1532.