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5 Pesos Expo 2000 - Osaka
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Currency | Cuban Peso (moneda nacional, 1914-date) |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms occupies the central field, featuring the traditional escutcheon with a key, rising sun, and oak and laurel branches. The curved legend REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs above along the upper periphery. The face value 5 PESOS appears below the arms, flanked by the silver fineness AG 0.999 and weight 7G inscribed in the field on either side. |
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| Reverse description | The central field depicts Twipsy, the official mascot of Expo 2000, rendered as a stylized animated figure, positioned above a representation of the Osaka World Exposition pavilion or exhibition building. A circular legend near the outer edge references the history of World Expositions, incorporating the dates 1970 and 2000 alongside the city names OSAKA and HANNOVER. A small dot serves as a decorative separator within the legend. |
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Cuba's hard-currency commemorative program of the 1990s was explicitly designed to generate foreign exchange, not domestic circulation. These silver issues were sold almost entirely to overseas collectors and dealers, making them curiosities of monetary policy as much as numismatics — coins issued by a state with a dual-currency system in which most citizens never legally handled foreign coin at all. The Expo 2000 Osaka series was one of several Cuban issues timed to international expositions, a format the BNC used repeatedly through this decade.