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50 Pesos Guama
| Issuer | Banco Central de Cuba |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| In circulation to | 1992 |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms occupies the central field, depicting a shield divided into three sections: the upper portion bears a rising sun over a sea between two headlands, the lower-left section displays diagonal blue and white stripes, and the lower-right section shows a royal palm. A Phrygian cap surmounted by a star appears above the shield, flanked on the left by a spray of oak leaves and on the right by a laurel branch, with a key at the base of the shield. The legend REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs along the upper border, while the denomination 50 PESOS is inscribed at the bottom. The silver specification 5 OZ and AG 0.999 appear in the lower flanking fields. The entire design is enclosed within a rope-pattern inner border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Guamá referenced here was a Taíno chieftain who led prolonged armed resistance against Spanish colonizers in Cuba during the 1530s, conducting guerrilla warfare from the Zapata swamps for roughly a decade after most organized indigenous resistance had collapsed elsewhere on the island. Cuba elevated him as a national symbol of anti-colonial defiance, a framing that aligned conveniently with revolutionary rhetoric after 1959.
This 155.5g, 65mm format places it firmly in the five-troy-ounce proof category that several mints were producing for the collector market in the early 1990s — a period when Cuba was aggressively issuing silver proofs to generate hard currency as Soviet subsidies evaporated following the USSR's collapse.