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10 Pesos Garibaldi
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Currency | Cuban Peso (moneda nacional, 1914-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE CUBA 10 PESOS |
| Reverse description | A facing portrait of Giuseppe Garibaldi is rendered in fine relief at center, with a background scene incorporating buildings and sailing ships evoking his campaigns in both the Old and New Worlds. A curved legend to the left and along the bottom identifies the subject by name and honorific title, while the date appears to the right of the portrait. |
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Giuseppe Garibaldi's connection to Cuba is direct and documented: he recruited volunteers on the island during his 1850s exile in the Americas, a period when he was effectively stateless following the collapse of the Roman Republic. Cuba's decision to honor him reflects the long-standing ideological alignment between the Cuban revolutionary tradition and Garibaldi's nationalist campaigns, which Fidel Castro's government periodically invoked as historical precedent for armed liberation movements.