Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Pesos Captain Kidd
| Issuer | Cuba |
|---|---|
| Year | 1995 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Cuban Peso (moneda nacional, 1914-date) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms is depicted centrally in the field, featuring the traditional escutcheon with a royal palm, rising sun, and key, supported by a fasces and an oak branch. The legend REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs along the upper periphery, while the face value 50 PESOS appears along the lower periphery. Fineness and weight indicators 5 OZ AG 0.999 are inscribed on either side of the arms in the field. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Smooth |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Part of Cuba's extended series of large-format silver issues targeting the collector market during the Special Period, when hard currency from abroad was far more valuable to Havana than domestic peso circulation. Captain Kidd — hanged at Execution Dock, Wapping, in 1701 after a trial widely considered politically motivated — had loose Caribbean connections, though his actual piracy occurred primarily in the Indian Ocean. The Scottish privateer-turned-condemned-pirate became a convenient figure for Cuban numismatic exports in the 1990s, when romanticized buccaneers sold reliably to Western buyers.