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30 Pesos King Philip of Castile and Lower Countries
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban coat of arms occupies the central field, surrounded by a beaded or rope border near the rim. A curved legend along the upper periphery reads REPUBLICA DE CUBA, while the denomination 30 PESOS appears below the arms. The silver fineness and troy ounce weight designations AG 0.999 and 3 OZ are inscribed on either side of the central device. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Cuba's hard-currency commemorative program of the late 1980s and early 1990s was explicitly designed to generate foreign exchange at a moment when the collapse of Soviet subsidies was hollowing out the island's economy. These large-format silver pieces were never intended for domestic circulation and were sold almost entirely to European and Latin American collectors through state export channels.
Philip II, the Spanish king commemorated here, was the monarch under whose authority Cuba became a formal staging post for the Manila Galleon trade — Havana's harbor serving as the assembly point for treasure fleets returning from the Americas.