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200 Pesos Bolivar and Marti, Piedfort
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Currency | Cuban Peso (moneda nacional, 1914-date) |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms occupies the central field, featuring the traditional escutcheon with key, royal palm, and fasces, surmounted by the Phrygian cap. The legend REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs above along the rim, while the denomination 200 PESOS appears below. The weight designation 1 OZ and fineness AU 0.900 flank the arms on either side of the field. |
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| Reverse lettering | BOLIVAR Y MARTI • PADRES DEL AMERICANISMO 1993 (Translation: Bolivar and Marti · Fathers of the Americanism 1993) |
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The piedfort format — struck at twice the standard planchet thickness — was used here not for circulation but for presentation sets distributed through diplomatic channels during a period when Cuba's hard currency position had collapsed following Soviet withdrawal. The 1993 date places this squarely in the "Special Period," when the Cuban mint was sustaining itself almost entirely through collector and numismatic export revenue.
The pairing of Bolívar and Martí reflects a long-cultivated political tradition in Havana of linking Cuban revolutionary identity to broader Latin American independence — Martí himself wrote extensively on Bolívar.