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25 Pesos Bee Hummingbird
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Weight | 7.78 g |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms occupies the central field, featuring the royal palm, rising sun, and key motifs within the shield, flanked by an oak branch and laurel branch tied with a ribbon. A curved legend above reads 'REPUBLICA DE CUBA', while the face value '25 PESOS' appears below the arms. The coin's gold weight and fineness, '1/4 OZ' and 'AU 0.999', are inscribed in the left and right fields respectively. The design is uniform across the series, with weight notations adjusted accordingly. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE CUBA 1/4 OZ 25 PESOS AU 0.999 (Translation: Republic of Cuba 1/4 ounce 25 Pesos gold 0.999) |
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Cuba's Bee Hummingbird series targeted the international bullion and collector market aggressively through the 1990s, with the Cuban mint leveraging the country's extraordinary endemic biodiversity at a moment when hard currency was desperately needed following the collapse of Soviet subsidies. The Special Period — Cuba's term for the economic crisis that began in 1990 — pushed state enterprises to generate foreign exchange by any available means, and numismatic exports were one of the cleaner options.
KM#692 corresponds to the half-ounce gold denomination in this wildlife series.