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5 Pesos Santisima Trinidad
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1984 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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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 between two mountains, surmounted by the Phrygian cap and framed by an oak and laurel branch. The legend REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs along the upper periphery. The coin's weight and silver fineness (12 G. AG 0.999) are inscribed on the left and right sides of the field respectively, with the face value 5 PESOS appearing below the arms. |
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| Reverse description | A detailed depiction of the historic Spanish naval vessel Santísima Trinidad under full sail, shown in right profile on a stylized sea. A curved legend arcs along the upper periphery identifying the commemorative theme, while the vessel's name appears as a curved legend along the lower periphery. The date 1984 is positioned to the left of the ship. A beaded inner circle frames the entire design near the edge. |
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Cuba's hard-currency commemorative program of the 1980s was aimed almost entirely at foreign collectors and was never intended to circulate domestically. The Santísima Trinidad issues belong to a wave of collector-market silver produced during a period when Cuba desperately needed convertible currency, and the Banco Nacional was effectively running a numismatic export operation alongside its conventional banking functions.
The vessel herself was a 112-gun first-rate ship of the line — the largest warship afloat for much of the 18th century — captured and sunk by a British storm following Trafalgar in 1805.