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20 Pesos Assault to the Moncada Garrison
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Value | 20 Pesos |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A dynamic patriotic scene commemorating the 35th anniversary of the assault on the Moncada Barracks depicts a group of revolutionary fighters in battle dress advancing under fire, with a prominent figure in the left foreground shouldering a rifle and gesturing forward amid billowing smoke. The composition conveys movement and urgency, rendered in detailed relief against a recessed field. The upper peripheral legend reads XXXV ANIV. DEL ASALTO AL CUARTEL MONCADA, with the fineness inscription PLATA FINA 2OZ 0,999 arcing across the inner field below the upper legend. The commemorative dual date 1953•1988 is inscribed along the lower rim. |
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The Moncada Barracks attack of July 26, 1953 — a failed military operation led by Fidel Castro against Batista's second-largest army garrison in Santiago de Cuba — killed or captured most of the roughly 160 participants. Castro was tried publicly, delivering his "History Will Absolve Me" defense speech in October of that year. The date became the name of the revolutionary movement itself.
This 1988 issue belongs to a sustained Cuban commemorative program that accelerated through the 1980s as the island's hard currency needs deepened. Coins like this were minted explicitly for export sale, rarely if ever entering domestic circulation.