50 Pesos La Giralda Tower

Cuba issued a series of large-format .999 silver pieces in the early 1990s specifically targeting the European collector market, with Spanish architectural monuments a deliberate choice to leverage cultural and historical ties. La Giralda — the tower in Seville that began as a minaret for the Almohad mosque in the twelfth century before being converted into a cathedral bell tower — was a calculated appeal to Spanish buyers at a moment when Cuba was scrambling for hard currency following the Soviet collapse.

The 155.5g planchet places this squarely in the 5 troy ounce category, a format popular with bullion-adjacent collector issues of the period.