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50 Pesos Baseball, Piedfort
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE CUBA 1 OZ 10 PESOS AG 0.999 (Translation: Republic of Cuba 1 ounce 10 Pesos silver 0.999) |
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Cuba's piedfort program of the late 1980s and early 1990s occupied an awkward position: the coins were legal tender issued by a state whose currency was non-convertible, struck almost exclusively for hard-currency export sales to Western collectors. This piece is effectively a foreign-exchange instrument dressed as a coin. The double-thickness flan — the defining feature of any piedfort — required individual hand-feeding at the press, keeping mintages extremely low even by Cuban collector issue standards.