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5 Pesos Cuban Parrot
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1985 |
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| Weight | 12 g |
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| Reverse description | A Cuban Amazon parrot (Amazona leucocephala), rendered in fine detail, is depicted perched centrally in the field. The curved legend DEFENSA DE LA NATURALEZA arcs along the upper periphery, referencing the conservation theme of the issue. The species name COTORRA is inscribed along the lower periphery. The mintmark and issue date 1985 appear in the lower right portion of the field. |
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| Mintage | 1985 - BU - 5,000 |
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Cuba's wildlife coin program of the 1980s was driven less by collector demand than by hard currency need — the Castro government used CAME (the Soviet bloc's Comecon) trade arrangements but still required Western currency reserves, and numismatic exports provided a reliable stream. The Cuban Parrot series drew serious interest from both wildlife conservationists and type collectors abroad, making it one of the more commercially successful outputs from the Banco Nacional's coin export program during that decade.