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50 Pesos Blackbeard
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Weight | 12 g |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE CUBA 50 PESOS (Translation: Republic of Cuba 50 Pesos) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Edward Teach — "Blackbeard" — had genuine operational ties to Cuba, using Caribbean ports including Havana as resupply points during his active years between roughly 1716 and 1718. Cuba's mid-1990s gold commemorative program leaned heavily on piracy themes, partly as a hard-currency revenue strategy during the Special Period following the Soviet collapse, when the Cuban government was aggressively courting foreign collectors and tourism dollars simultaneously.
The JMA reference places this within a tightly catalogued run of Cuban gold issues that remain underappreciated in North American markets due to import restrictions under the U.S. embargo.