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5 Pesos Sarajevo 1984 - Skier
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1983 |
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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 a shield with a key and rising sun, flanked by an oak branch on the left and a laurel branch on the right, surmounted by the Phrygian cap. The legend REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs along the upper periphery. The coin's silver fineness and weight are inscribed on the left and right sides of the arms respectively, with the denomination 5 PESOS and the silver designation AG 0.999 below. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1983 SARAJEVO 1984 (Translation: 1983 Sarajevo 1984) |
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Cuba's hard-currency commemorative program of the early 1980s was a deliberate foreign exchange operation — these silver pieces were never intended for domestic circulation in a country where the peso was inconvertible. The Sarajevo Winter Olympics series was sold through Cimex and similar state export agencies to collectors abroad, generating dollars and deutschmarks while ordinary Cubans handled aluminum and nickel.
Sarajevo '84 would become the last Winter Games held behind the Iron Curtain — and within a decade, the host city was under siege.