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5 Pesos Discus
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1983 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms occupies the central field, featuring the traditional escutcheon with the royal palm, the rising sun, and the sea between two promontories, encircled by an oak branch at right and a laurel branch at left tied with a ribbon at the base. The circumferential legend REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs across the upper periphery. The coin's weight and fineness (12G. and AG 0.999) are inscribed on either side of the shield, with the denomination 5 PESOS displayed in the lower field. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE CUBA 12G. 5 PESOS AG 0.999 (Translation: Republic of Cuba 12g. 5 Pesos silver 0.999) |
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Cuba's commemorative silver program of the 1980s was largely export-driven — these pieces were struck for foreign collectors and hard-currency sales, not domestic circulation, at a time when the U.S. embargo made dollar-denominated foreign exchange critical to Havana's finances. The discus thrower issue belongs to a run of Olympic-themed coins produced ahead of the 1984 Los Angeles Games, which Cuba ultimately boycotted in solidarity with the Soviet-led bloc.
The boycott renders the sporting subject quietly ironic.