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5 Pesos Ernesto Che Guevara
| Issuer | Banco Central de Cuba |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Cuba began issuing bimetallic pesos in the late 1990s as the island clawed back from the "Período Especial," the catastrophic economic contraction that followed the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991 and the abrupt end of Moscow's annual subsidies — estimated at roughly $4–6 billion per year at their peak. Placing Guevara on circulating coinage rather than purely commemorative issues was a deliberate move by the Castro government to reinforce revolutionary iconography in everyday exchange during a period of acute public hardship.
Guevara was an Argentine, not Cuban — a biographical fact the coinage quietly elides.