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| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Currency | Cuban Peso (moneda nacional, 1914-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | VLADIMIR ILICH LENIN 2002 |
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| Additional information |
Cuba has issued commemorative peso coinage in copper-nickel since the 1970s, much of it produced for export and collector sale rather than domestic circulation — hard currency was the point, not pocket change. This Lenin issue fits that pattern precisely: struck for foreign numismatic markets at a moment when the Cuban economy was still grinding through the "Special Period" austerity that followed Soviet collapse.
Lenin himself died in 1924, leaving no successor formally designated.