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1000 Pesos 65th Anniversary of Cuba's Banking Nationalization
| Issuer | Banco Central de Cuba |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Size | 150 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse description | Dark red and orange intaglio printing on a light guilloche underprint. A vignette portrait of Julio Antonio Mella McPartland is positioned at right, with the issuer name arched across the top and the bank seal at upper left. Face value numerals appear at upper right and lower left corners, with the denomination in letters at center; a two-letter, two-digit series identifier appears at left center and lower right, alongside six-digit serial numbers at upper left and lower center. The Sistema Bancario Cubano logo occupies the lower center, with the issuing year at center right and lower left, and a red facsimile signature with title below at lower left. Braille tactile dots for the visually impaired are present at upper left, and a windowed security strip bearing the repeated inscription BCC 1000 runs vertically through the note. |
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| Protection description | Portrait of Julio Antonio Mella McPartland and electrotype numeral 1000; windowed security strip with repeated microtext BCC 1000 |
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Cuba nationalized its banking system in October 1960, absorbing foreign institutions — including branches of Chase Manhattan and First National City Bank — along with domestic private banks, consolidating all financial activity under state control within roughly a year of the Revolution taking power. The 65th anniversary of that event is the explicit occasion for this commemorative issue, making it one of the few circulating-denomination notes anywhere to treat expropriation of foreign capital as a commemorative milestone worth printing.
Printed domestically by Impresos de Seguridad in Havana, the note is one of relatively few Cuban issues produced entirely without foreign security printing contractors — a point the Cuban state has occasionally made a deliberate policy signal rather than merely a logistical one.