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5 Pesos Orchid
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms occupies the central field, featuring the traditional escutcheon with a key, rising sun, and royal palm tree, flanked by an oak branch on the left and a laurel branch on the right, surmounted by the Phrygian cap above a fasces. The legend REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs along the upper periphery. The weight and fineness designations AG 0.999 and 12G. appear on the left and right fields respectively, while the face value 5 PESOS is inscribed along the lower periphery. |
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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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Cuba's early 1980s silver program was aimed squarely at the hard-currency collector market — a calculated move by the Castro government to generate foreign exchange without loosening domestic economic controls. These pieces never circulated internally and were sold abroad through state export agencies.
The KM#70 reference encompasses die variants documented under JMA numbers AAEE031 and AAEE034, suggesting at least two distinct production runs or finishing differences exist within this single issue year.