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1 Peso
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1967-1988 |
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| Printer | Státní Tiskárna Cenin, Prague, Czech Republic (1953-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA UN PESO JOSÉ MARTÍ GARANTIZADO INTEGRAMENTE CON EL ORO, CAMBIO EXTRANJERO CONVERTIBLE EN ORO Y TODOS LOS DEMÁS ACTIVOS DEL BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA. ESTE BILLETE CONSTITUYE UNA OBLIGACIÓN DEL ESTADO CUBANO. (Translation: National Bank of Cuba One Peso José Martí Fully Guaranteed with the gold, foreign exchange convertible into gold and all the other assets of the National Bank of Cuba. This note constitutes an obligation of the Cuban State.) |
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| Variants | P#102a - 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970 & 1972 P#102b - 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982 & 1985 P#102c - 1986 P#102d - 1988 |
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Cuba's shift to Czechoslovak printing after the Revolution was a direct consequence of the US trade embargo and the broader reorientation toward the Eastern Bloc. The Státní Tiskárna Cenin in Prague became the primary supplier of Cuban banknotes for decades, and the relationship was extensive enough that Cuban currency design during this period bears the visual fingerprints of Socialist-era central European printing conventions — clean intaglio work, flat color fills, heavy serif typography.
The P#102 series ran across an unusually long span for a low denomination, reflecting the relative monetary stability Cuba maintained through rationing and price controls rather than open-market currency pressure. Inflation that would have forced a reissue elsewhere was suppressed administratively.