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5 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1960 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 PESOS 5 PESOS BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA CINCO 5 PESOS MAXIMO GOMEZ GARANTIZADO INTEGRAMENTE CON EL ORO, CAMBIO EXTRANJERO CONVERTIBLE EN ORO Y TODOS LOS DEMÁS ACTIVOS DEL BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA. ESTE BILLETE CONSTITUYE UNA OBLIGACIÓN DEL ESTADO CUBANO. (Translation: 5 Pesos 5 Pesos National Bank of Cuba Five 5 Pesos Maximo Gomez Fully Guaranteed with the gold, foreign exchange. Convertible into gold and all the other assets of the National Bank of Cuba. This note constitutes an obligation of the Cuban State.) |
| Reverse description | The Cuban coat of arms is set within a circular guilloche frame at centre, flanked on both sides by the face value in numerals and letters. The country name arches across the top in bold letterpress, while a legal tender clause in Spanish occupies the lower register, asserting unlimited liberatory force for all obligations contracted or fulfilled within the national territory. |
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A Cold War curiosity in paper form. This note was printed by the American Bank Note Company in New York — a contract almost certainly placed before the Revolution fully severed U.S.-Cuba economic ties, making it one of the last Cuban issues produced by an American security printer before that relationship ended permanently.
The ABNC's involvement here is notable precisely because of how briefly it continued. By the mid-1960s, Cuban printing contracts had shifted to socialist-bloc partners, and ABNC's long history with Cuban currency was finished.