Catálogo
5 Pesos
| Emisor | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
|---|---|
| Año | 1991 |
| Tipo | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Valor | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Moneda | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Composición | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Tamaño | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Forma | Rectangular |
| Impresor | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Diseñador(es) | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Grabador(es) | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| En circulación hasta | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Referencia(s) | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Descripción del anverso | Portrait of Antonio Maceo at right with his name inscribed below; the coat of arms of the Banco Nacional de Cuba occupies the centre, with the face value in words beneath and the issuer's name running across the top and left. A Braille tactile mark appears at upper right, and the overall colour scheme is green with serial numbers printed in red. |
|---|---|
| Leyenda del anverso | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Descripción del reverso | A vignette illustrates the historic meeting between Cuban independence leader Antonio Maceo and Spanish General Arsenio Martínez Campos at Mangos de Baraguá in 1878, known as the Protest of Baraguá. The country name appears at the top, the face value in numeral at upper left, and in both numeral and words at lower right. |
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| Firma(s) | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Tipo de protección | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Descripción de la protección | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Variantes | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Comentarios |
Cuba's shift to Chinese printers for this series reflected a post-Soviet reality taking shape even before the USSR's formal dissolution — Moscow's subsidies were collapsing, and Havana was scrambling to maintain basic state functions including currency production. The China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation had been aggressively expanding its client base among socialist and developing-world governments through the 1980s, and Cuba became one of its more politically symbolic contracts.
P#108 carried a watermark as its sole mechanical security feature — thin protection for a denomination that would soon be rendered nearly meaningless by the peso's catastrophic purchasing power decline during the Special Period beginning in 1990–91.