Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
3 Pesos Convertibles
| Issuer | Banco Central de Cuba |
|---|---|
| Year | 2006-2017 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Red on multicolour underprint with green and yellow guilloche patterns. Central vignette shows an intaglio-engraved standing figure of the Monumento a Ernesto "Che" Guevara, with the large denomination numeral "3" at upper right and lower left corners; the issuer title "Banco Central de" appears in green at upper left alongside the bank's monogram cartouche. The denomination "TRES PESOS" is printed in bold red letterpress over a sunburst guilloche at centre, with the legend "pesos convertibles" and convertibility guarantee text below. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Watermark |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Cuba has operated a dual-currency system since the mid-1990s, when the Peso Convertible (CUC) was introduced as a hard-currency substitute pegged to the US dollar — partly to capture remittances and tourism spending in state-run institutions while keeping the ordinary peso separate. The 3 CUC denomination is unusual globally; very few currencies issue a three-unit note, and its existence here reflects deliberate denomination planning for the convertible series rather than any practical gap-filling.
Impresos de Seguridad, the Cuban state security printer established in the 1970s, produced the entire CUC series domestically — a deliberate policy choice given the US embargo's restrictions on foreign printing contracts. The CUC itself was abolished in January 2021 as part of a monetary unification that had been announced and delayed repeatedly for years.