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5 Pesos Sarajevo 1984 - Skier
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1983 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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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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| Edge | Reeded |
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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.