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50 Pesos Queen Joanna
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms occupies the central field, featuring the traditional shield with key, rising sun, and royal palm, flanked by an oak and laurel branch. The curved legend REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs along the upper periphery, while the face value 50 PESOS appears in the lower field. The weight designation 1/2 OZ and fineness AU 0.999 are positioned on either side of the arms. A rope or cable border design runs parallel to and just inside the coin's outer edge. |
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| Reverse description | A portrait bust of Queen Joanna (Juana I) of Castile is rendered in right-facing profile within the central field, her name IOANNA and title HISP • REG (Queen of Spain) inscribed below the effigy. The curved legend ★ V CENTENARIO ★, commemorating the 500th anniversary of Columbus's 1492 voyage, arcs across the upper periphery, while the commemorative year 1492 appears as a lower legend flanking the portrait. The issue year 1991 and a mintmark are positioned to the right of the bust. A rope or cable border design frames the design near the outer edge. |
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Joanna of Castile — "Juana la Loca" — was Columbus's patroness Isabella's daughter and the legal sovereign of Spain during the earliest decades of Spanish colonization of Cuba, though she spent most of that period imprisoned at Tordesillas under the effective regency of her father Ferdinand and later her son Charles. Cuba's commemorative gold program of the early 1990s drew heavily on figures connected to the 1492 quincentenary, positioning this issue within a broader series timed for the 1992 anniversary.