Catalog
5 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1967-1990 |
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| Value | 5 Pesos (5 CUP) |
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| Obverse description | At center, an oval vignette carries an intaglio portrait of Antonio Maceo, with the issuer's name arched across the top. Face value numerals appear in all four corners, with the denomination in letters at upper left; a red series designation (one letter and two digits to 1972; two letters and two digits from 1984) is printed at lower left and center right, while a six-digit red serial number occupies center left and upper right. The issuing year is shown at lower left and upper right. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA CINCO PESOS ANTONIO MACEO GARANTIZADO INTEGRAMENTE CON EL ORO, CAMBIO EXTRANJERO CONVERTIBLE EN ORO Y TODOS LOS DEMAS ACTIVOS DEL BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA. ESTE BILLETE CONSTITUYE UNA OBLIGACION DEL ESTADO CUBANO. (Translation: National Bank of Cuba Five Pesos Antonio Maceo Integrally warranted with the gold, foreign exchange conversable to gold, and all other National Bank of Cuba assets. This note constitutes an obligation of the Cuban State.) |
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The Banco Nacional de Cuba series printed by Státní Tiskárna Cenin (STC) in Prague reflects the economic realignment that followed the 1960 nationalizations, when Cuba's printing contracts shifted away from Western security printers toward Soviet-bloc suppliers. STC had extensive experience producing currency for socialist states and became Cuba's primary printer for decades.
P#103 spans an unusually long issue window — over two decades — during which Cuba's economy lurched through the sugar dependency crises of the 1970s and the rectification campaigns of the late 1980s. Notes from the early printings within this range are generally harder to attribute by date, as the series carried no year on the face.