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5 Pesos Judo
| 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 shield with a golden key between two rocky promontories and a rising sun, a royal palm tree in the center, and a fasces to the left and an oak branch to the right. The arms are surmounted by the Phrygian cap on a pole and flanked by sprigs of laurel and oak tied with a ribbon in the national colors. The circular legend REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs along the upper periphery. Weight and fineness designations appear at the sides of the field, with the face value 5 PESOS and silver fineness AG 0.999 inscribed below the arms. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Cuba's 1983 sports series was produced almost exclusively for hard currency export — the coins were never intended for domestic circulation on the island, where peso coinage remained largely symbolic given the dual-currency realities of the period. The judo issue was part of a broader effort by the Cuban government to generate foreign exchange through collector sales routed via intermediaries in Europe and Canada, a practice that intensified through the 1980s as Soviet subsidies began to soften.