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100 Pesos Lenin
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| In circulation to | 1977 |
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| Reverse description | A left-facing portrait of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin dominates the central field, rendered in high relief with fine detailing of facial features and hair. To the left of the portrait appears the date 1917, commemorating the October Revolution, while the issue date 1977 and a mintmark appear to the right. A curved legend arching along the upper periphery bears the name of the commemorated event, and the honoree's name appears along the lower periphery. The overall composition follows a formal commemorative medallic style typical of Cuban gold issues of the 1970s. |
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| Reverse lettering | GRAN REVOLUCION SOCIALISTA DE OCTUBRE 1917 1977 V.I. LENIN (Translation: Great October Socialist Revolution 1917 1977 V.I. Lenin) |
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Issued the year after the Cuban Communist Party's first congress formally enshrined Soviet-style governance into the new constitution, this piece belongs to a short run of Cuban gold commemoratives produced almost exclusively for export sale and hard-currency collection — not domestic circulation. Cuba had virtually no functional gold coin tradition of its own at this point, and the series was frankly a revenue mechanism targeting foreign numismatic markets during a period of acute dollar scarcity.
The .917 fineness follows British sovereign standard rather than the .900 used across most Latin American gold coinage — a deliberate choice that aligned these issues with international bullion expectations.