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5 Pesos Sugar Cane
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1981 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms occupies the central field, depicting a shield quartered with a royal palm, a rising sun over a key, and red-and-white stripes, supported by an oak branch and laurel wreath tied with a ribbon. The legend REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs along the upper periphery. The coin's silver fineness (AG 0.999) and weight (12G.) are inscribed on the left and right sides of the arms respectively, while the face value 5 PESOS appears in the lower field. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a panoramic landscape of a Cuban sugar plantation, featuring harvested sugar cane in the foreground, agricultural machinery in the middle ground, and a sugar refinery with smokestacks visible on the horizon. The legend DIA MUNDIAL DE LA ALIMENTACION arcs along the upper periphery, referencing the FAO World Food Day. The issue date 1981 appears to the right, and the word AZUCAR (Sugar) is inscribed along the lower border. |
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Cuba's hard-currency commemorative program of the late 1970s and 1980s was explicitly designed to earn foreign exchange, not circulate domestically. These silver issues were sold abroad through state export channels while Cuban citizens had no legal access to them. The Sugar Cane piece belongs to a run of thematic issues celebrating Cuban agriculture and industry during a period when sugar still accounted for roughly 75% of the country's export revenue — a dependence the Revolution had promised to diversify but never did.