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50 Pesos Camilo Cienfuegos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1989 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the Cuban coat of arms as used by the Banco Nacional de Cuba, rendered in fine detail. A curved legend along the upper periphery reads REPUBLICA DE CUBA, with BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA continuing the arc below. The denomination 50 PESOS appears in the lower field beneath the arms. The overall design follows the standard obverse format employed on Cuban commemorative gold issues of this period. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Camilo Cienfuegos, one of the original commanders of the Cuban revolutionary forces, disappeared on October 28, 1959 — just months after the revolution's success — when his Cessna 310 vanished over the Florida Straits. No wreckage was ever found. The circumstances remain officially unexplained, and speculation about the crash has never fully subsided within Cuban historiography.
Cuba's gold commemorative program of the late 1980s was aimed squarely at the hard-currency export market, with domestic circulation entirely notional.