Souvenir Peso

Cuba's souvenir peso series of the 1980s was produced explicitly for the foreign tourist market under the dual-currency system that kept convertible pesos entirely separate from the moneda nacional circulating among Cuban citizens. This particular issue was never intended to enter domestic circulation — it was sold through Tiendas Recaudadoras de Divisas, the hard-currency shops that ordinary Cubans were legally barred from entering until 1993.