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30 Pesos Hatuey
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1991 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | A portrait bust of Hatuey, the Taino chieftain and Cuban national hero, is rendered in high relief at the center of the field, with his name inscribed below the effigy. The curved legend 'V CENTENARIO 1492 1991' arcs along the upper periphery, commemorating the fifth centenary of Columbus's arrival in the Americas. The mint mark and issue date appear to the right of the portrait. A band of indigenous geometric ornament decorates the lower border, echoing the obverse design. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Hatuey was a Taíno chieftain who fled Hispaniola for Cuba around 1511 to warn the indigenous population of the Spanish advance, and was burned at the stake by order of Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar after refusing baptism — reportedly telling a priest that he preferred not to share heaven with Christians. Cuba adopted him as a national hero and proto-revolutionary figure, a framing the Castro government leaned on heavily. This 1991 issue arrived as the Soviet subsidy collapse was already gutting the Cuban economy, making hard-currency commemoratives an increasingly vital foreign exchange mechanism for the state.