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50 Pesos Volleyball
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Value | 50 Pesos (50 CUP) |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms, featuring a shield flanked by an oak branch and laurel wreath, occupies the central field. A curved legend along the upper periphery reads REPUBLICA DE CUBA, with the face value 50 PESOS inscribed along the lower rim. The fineness AU 0.999 and weight designation 1/2 OZ appear on the left and right sides of the field respectively, framing the central device. |
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| Mintage | 1990 - Proof - 100 |
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Cuba's gold commemorative program of the late 1980s and early 1990s was largely export-driven — hard currency was the point, not domestic circulation. The 1990 Barcelona Olympic series, of which this piece is part, was produced for foreign buyers at a moment when the Cuban economy was already bracing for the collapse of Soviet subsidies that would trigger the "Special Period" austerity beginning in 1991.
Mintages across the Cuban Olympic gold issues from this era were typically small, and secondary market activity has historically been thin outside specialist collectors of Cuban numismatics.