100 Pesos Leonor Molina - Trial strike

Trial strikes — pruebas — from Cuba's state mint in the late 1980s occupy an awkward position in Cuban numismatics: produced under a government with no functioning domestic gold market, for an export hard-currency program designed entirely to earn foreign exchange. The Leonor Molina 100 Pesos series was part of that broader CUBACOIN initiative, and pruebas like this one were submitted for official approval before bullion release, with surviving examples rarely escaping institutional hands.

JMA attribution confirms Cuban specialist Jorge Muñiz Ángel's documentation — the only serious cataloging effort for these approval pieces.