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1000 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Central de Cuba |
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| Year | 2010-2023 |
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| Value | 1000 Pesos |
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| Obverse description | A left-of-center intaglio portrait of Julio Antonio Mella McPartland, Cuban student leader and co-founder of the Communist Party of Cuba, is set against a multicolour guilloche underprint. The denomination numeral 1000 appears at lower left and lower right, while the issuing authority inscription runs across the upper register. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1000 REPUBLICA DE CUBA UNIVERSIDAD DE LA HABANA 1000 (Translation: Republic of Cuba University of Havana.) |
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Cuba's domestic security printing capability has been limited for most of the revolutionary period, making this note — produced entirely in Havana by Impresos de Seguridad — notable as a product of state-controlled in-house production rather than a foreign specialist such as De La Rue or FNMT. The 1000 Peso denomination sits at the top of the Cuban peso series, though its real purchasing power has been eroded severely by the dual-currency distortions that plagued the economy until the CUP/CUC unification attempt of January 2021.
Watermark-only security is thin by contemporary standards. That choice reflects the constraints of domestic printing rather than any deliberate policy decision.