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200 Pesos Montecristi Manifesto, Piedfort
| Issuer | Empresa Cubana de Acuñaciones |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Weight | 62.2 g |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms occupies the central field, rendered in fine relief and depicting the traditional escutcheon with key, rising sun, royal palm, and surrounding fasces and oak branches. The legend REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs along the upper periphery, while the face value 200 PESOS is inscribed along the lower border. The weight notation 1 OZ and fineness AU 0.999 appear flanking the arms on either side of the field. The overall design reflects the classical engraving style associated with Charles Edward Barber. |
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| Mintage | 1994 - Proof - 10 |
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The Montecristi Manifesto was drafted by José Martí and Máximo Gómez in the Dominican town of Montecristi in March 1895, weeks before Martí's death at Dos Ríos. It laid out the political and ethical terms of the final independence war — explicitly rejecting racial division and warning against caudillismo, which made it as much a social document as a military one. Cuba issued commemorative coinage around its centenary throughout the early 1990s despite the catastrophic economic contraction of the Special Period.
A piedfort strikes at double the standard planchet thickness, making this a collector-only production with no circulation intent whatsoever. ENCA piedforts from this period were produced in extremely limited numbers for the international numismatic market — hard currency the Cuban state badly needed in 1994.