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50 Pesos High jump
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Weight | 15.55 g |
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| Obverse description | At center, the Cuban coat of arms depicted in full heraldic detail, featuring the royal palm within a shield, surmounted by the Phrygian cap above a fasces, and flanked by a branch of laurel and one of oak. The curved legend REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs above along the rim. The face value 50 PESOS appears in the lower field, with the weight designation 1/2 OZ and fineness AU 0.999 inscribed on the left and right sides respectively. |
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| Reverse description | A dynamic depiction of a high jumper in full athletic motion, executing the Fosbury Flop technique over the bar, rendered in high relief at center. The curved legend XI JUEGOS PANAMERICANOS arcs along the upper rim. Below the figure, the official logo of the XI Pan American Games appears in the lower field, accompanied by the inscription HABANA/91 along the bottom rim and the issue year 1990 within the design. |
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Cuba's late-1980s and early-1990s gold sport series was produced almost entirely for the hard-currency export market — the coins were never intended to circulate domestically, where dollar transactions were then illegal for ordinary Cubans. Mintages were kept low to sustain collector premiums, and distribution ran primarily through European and Latin American numismatic dealers.
The 1990 Barcelona Olympics provided the nominal occasion for this issue, two years before the Games themselves.