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1 Peso Vladimir Lenin

Issuer Banco Nacional de Cuba
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.

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