Catalog
1000 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Central de Cuba |
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| Year | 2010-2023 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents the University of Havana, rendered with its iconic neoclassical colonnaded facade and monumental staircase, set within a multicolour guilloche underprint. The denomination numeral 1000 is repeated at left and right, with state and institution inscriptions occupying the upper and lower registers respectively. |
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| Protection description | Watermark portrait of Celia Sánchez Manduley and electrotype numeral 1000. |
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| Comments |
Cuba's domestic security printing capability has been limited for most of the revolutionary period, making this note — produced entirely in Havana by Impresos de Seguridad — notable as a product of state-controlled in-house production rather than a foreign specialist such as De La Rue or FNMT. The 1000 Peso denomination sits at the top of the Cuban peso series, though its real purchasing power has been eroded severely by the dual-currency distortions that plagued the economy until the CUP/CUC unification attempt of January 2021.
Watermark-only security is thin by contemporary standards. That choice reflects the constraints of domestic printing rather than any deliberate policy decision.