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20 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1949-1960 |
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| Size | 156 x 67 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette consists of an intaglio portrait of General Antonio Maceo set within an oval frame, rendered in black and olive-green tones against a fine guilloche underprint. The red seal of the Banco Nacional de Cuba appears to the left, with the denomination numeral '20' repeated in the corners. Serial numbers were printed in red for the 1949 and 1958 issues and in black for the 1960 issue. |
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| Variants | P#80a - 1949 P#80b - 1958 P#80c - 1960 |
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The Banco Nacional de Cuba was established in 1948 as part of a broader push to end Cuba's long dependence on U.S. Federal Reserve notes, which had circulated alongside — and often instead of — domestic currency for decades. This series, printed by American Bank Note Company across the 1950s, represents the bank's first full generation of notes issued with genuine monetary independence from the dollar-peg arrangements that had constrained earlier Cuban banking.
The 1959 revolution complicated distribution of later-dated examples within this series. Notes bearing dates from 1960 were printed before Che Guevara took over as Banco Nacional president in November of that year — his signature would mark a sharp break in the series.