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2 Pesos Military fundraising note
| Issuer | Movimiento 26 de Julio (26th of July Movement) |
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| Year | 1958 |
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| Currency | Cuban Peso (moneda nacional, 1914-date) |
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| Protection type | Underprint |
| Protection description | Repetitive diagonal text underprint reading 'Movimiento 26 de Julio. Emision Aniversario' across the reverse field |
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Issued by Fidel Castro's guerrilla organization during the final year of the insurgency against Batista, this note was part of a series of revolutionary scrip used to raise funds and pay fighters operating in the Sierra Maestra. The 26th of July Movement had no central bank and no printing infrastructure — these notes were produced under genuinely improvised conditions, and the quality reflects that.
Whether they functioned as true currency in any transactional sense remains debated. Some circulated within liberated zones; others were sold to sympathizers as revolutionary bonds. The underprint is notably rudimentary for a security feature, doing little practical work against counterfeiting in a zone where counterfeiting was not the primary threat.