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5 Pesos Leonor Molina - Trial strike
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1987 |
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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 shield divided into three quarters: the upper portion displaying the golden key of the Gulf of Mexico flanked by two landmasses, the lower-left quarter bearing the blue-and-white striped field of the Cuban flag, and the lower-right quarter depicting a royal palm. The shield is flanked by a wreath of oak leaves on the left and laurel on the right, tied at the base, with a Phrygian cap mounted atop the crest. The circular legend REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs along the upper periphery within a beaded border, while the denomination 5 PESOS is inscribed along the lower arc; the weight 12G and silver fineness AG 0.999 appear in the left and right fields respectively. |
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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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Trial strikes — or *pruebas* in Cuban numismatic nomenclature — from the Casa de la Moneda de La Habana in the 1980s occupy a peculiar corner of the series. Cuba's state mint produced small runs of these pieces largely for internal approval and archival purposes, meaning survival numbers are genuinely low and provenance is often opaque. The JMA reference places this within Jorge Mora Aguirre's cataloguing of Cuban patterns and proofs, the primary authority for issues the KM system never absorbed.
Leonor Molina was a 19th-century Cuban independence fighter — one of the *mambisas* — who participated in the Ten Years' War.