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50 Pesos High jump, Piedfort
| Issuer | Empresa Cubana de Acuñaciones, Havana, Cuba |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Weight | 31.1 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a dynamic high-relief depiction of a male high jumper executing the Fosbury Flop technique, his arched body clearing the bar diagonally across the field with outstretched arms and elevated legs rendered in fine detail. The legend XI JUEGOS PANAMERICANOS curves along the upper periphery in bold incuse lettering. In the lower field, the inscription HABANA/91 is prominently displayed, flanked by the date 1990 above a small mint mark. A stylized infinity-loop emblem, representing the Pan American Games, appears centrally between the date and the city inscription. |
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Cuba's piedfort gold sports series of 1990 was issued under the Empresa Cubana de Acuñaciones — a state minting operation established specifically to generate hard currency through numismatic exports, as the peso itself was inconvertible. Piedforts, struck at double the standard planchet thickness, were produced in extremely limited quantities and sold exclusively to foreign collectors and dealers; no Cuban citizen could legally hold them.
The high jump issue coincides with Cuba's continued Olympic exclusion from Seoul 1988 following the 1980 Moscow boycott fallout, lending a pointed irony to the subject matter.