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50 Centavos José Martí
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1953 |
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| Composition | Silver (.900) (silver 90%, copper 10%) |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts a parchment scroll bearing a famous quotation attributed to José Martí. The country name 'REPUBLICA DE CUBA' appears as a curved legend along the upper periphery, while the national motto 'PATRIA Y LIBERTAD' arcs along the lower border. The weight '12.5 G.' and fineness '900 M.' are inscribed to the left and below the scroll respectively, flanking it symmetrically, with the denomination '50 c.' displayed to the right of the scroll. The overall composition presents a formal, heraldic character consistent with commemorative issues of the mid-twentieth century. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued to mark the centennial of José Martí's birth, this coin was part of Cuba's largest commemorative program under Batista — a government that found it politically convenient to claim the revolutionary poet-hero as its own. The irony was not lost on contemporaries. Within six years, the regime that minted this coin had collapsed, and Martí's image would be repurposed by the very revolution he had inspired a century earlier.
The .900 fine silver series from this year includes multiple denominations, all struck at the Philadelphia Mint under contract.