Issued to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Cuban Republic — formally inaugurated on May 20, 1902 — this coin appeared under Fulgencio Batista during his second hold on power, restored by coup just months earlier in March 1952. The commemorative program that year carried an unavoidable irony: a celebration of republican founding issued by a government that had just suspended the constitution.
KM#25 shares its specifications with the earlier 40 centavos types, keeping continuity with pre-revolutionary Cuban silver coinage that dated back to 1915.
Issued to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Cuban Republic — formally inaugurated on May 20, 1902 — this coin appeared under Fulgencio Batista during his second hold on power, restored by coup just months earlier in March 1952. The commemorative program that year carried an unavoidable irony: a celebration of republican founding issued by a government that had just suspended the constitution.
KM#25 shares its specifications with the earlier 40 centavos types, keeping continuity with pre-revolutionary Cuban silver coinage that dated back to 1915.