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5 Pesos Italian map
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#290, JMA#AAEE237 |
| Obverse description | The obverse displays the coat of arms of the City of Havana at center, featuring a key and two towers flanked by two columns surmounted by a royal crown. The national legend REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination 5 PESOS appears in the lower field. The city name CIUDAD DE LA HABANA is inscribed below the arms, with the fineness AG 0,999 and weight 16G. positioned in the side fields flanking the central device. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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This piece belongs to Cuba's prolific late-Cold War commemorative program, during which the Cuban mint issued dozens of silver collector coins primarily for hard currency export — a pragmatic foreign exchange strategy for a state under sustained U.S. embargo. The "Italian map" designation distinguishes it within a broader series marking the quincentennial buildup to 1992, separating cartographic depictions by their source geography.
Pre-Columbian and Age of Discovery themes dominated Cuban commemorative output throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, with many issues sharing dies or planchet specifications across multiple catalog numbers.