5 Pesos Machete attack

€213,556.00
IssuerCuba
Year1958-1960
TypeStandard banknote
Value5 Pesos (5 CUP)
CurrencyCuban Peso (moneda nacional, 1914-date)
CompositionPaper
Size145 × 63 mm
ShapeRectangular
PrinterThomas De La Rue, London, United Kingdom
No. printed
Designer(s)
Engraver(s)
In circulation to4 August 1961
Reference(s) P#91
Obverse descriptionPortrait of Maximo Gomez in oval frame, at right; Image of Machete Attack , at center. Color: black and green. Serial: red on left, red seal of the National Bank of Cuba.
Reverse descriptionCuban coat of arms at center, images of tobacco Cuban industry: plantation on left, cigar factory on right. Country name on top; face value in numbers and letters on both ends.
Signature(s)Joaquí­n Martí­nez Sáenz, Alejandro Herrera Arango, Ernesto `Che` Guevara, Rolando Dí­az Astaraí­n,
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Obverse lettering5 PESOS 5 BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA CINCO PESOS MAXIMO GOMEZ 5 5 PESOS GARANTIZADO INTEGRAMENTE CON EL ORO, CAMBIO EXTRANJERO CONVERTIBLE EN ORO Y TODOS LOS DEMÁS ACTIVOS DEL BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA. ESTE BILLETE CONSTITUYE UNA OBLIGACIÓN DEL ESTADO CUBANO.
(Translation: 5 Pesos 5 National Bank of Cuba Five Pesos Maximo Gomez 5 5 Pesos Fully Guaranteed with the gold, foreign exchange. Convertible into gold and all the other assets of the National Bank of Cuba This note constitutes an obligation of the Cuban State.)
Reverse letteringREPUBLICA DE CUBA 5 5 CINCO PESOS CINCO PESOS 5 5 ESTE BILLETE TIENE CURSO LEGAL Y FUERZA LIBERATORIA ILIMITADA, DE ACUERDO CON LA LEY, PARA EL PAGO DE TODA OBLIGACIÓN CONTRAÍDA O A CUMPLIR EN EL TERRITORIO NACIONAL.
(Translation: Republic of Cuba 5 5 Five Pesos Five Pesos 5 5 This note is legal tender and has unlimited liberatory force, in accordance with the law, for payment of all obligations, contracted or to be fulfilled, on the whole national territory)
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Catalog ID4568816300
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