20 Pesos Antonio Maceo

Antonio Maceo Grajales, the Afro-Cuban general who fought in both the Ten Years' War and the War of Independence, is remembered as much for the Protest of Baraguá as for any battlefield victory — his 1878 refusal to accept Spain's peace terms was one of the most defiant acts in Cuban military history. This coin was issued the year Castro's government was deepening its alignment with the Soviet bloc, and Cuban commemorative silver of this period was produced almost exclusively for foreign hard-currency markets rather than domestic circulation.