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10 Centavos
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1915-1949 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms occupies the central field, featuring the royal palm, a key, and a fasces with the rising sun, enclosed within a shield supported by an oak branch and laurel wreath. The denomination DIEZ CENTAVOS appears as a curved legend along the lower rim, while the inscription REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs along the upper rim. The design is executed in a clean, classical engraving style characteristic of the Philadelphia Mint work of the early twentieth century. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Cuba's silver coinage of this period was struck almost entirely at the Philadelphia Mint, a arrangement that persisted because the Cuban government lacked domestic minting infrastructure. Production was interrupted and sporadic across the series — certain dates, particularly in the 1940s, were struck in quantities so small that they now command multiples of face value among date collectors. The 1949 issue closed the series just two years before Cuba established its own mint capability.