5 Pesos Leonor Molina - Trial strike

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.