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100 Pesos Lenin

Issuer Cuba
Year 1977
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In circulation to 1977
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Obverse script Latin
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Edge Reeded
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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.

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