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2 Centavos Pattern

Issuer Cuba
Year 1915
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Weight 3.5 g
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Obverse description The obverse displays the Cuban national coat of arms at center, featuring a shield divided into three sections: the upper portion depicts a sun rising over a sea with a promontory, the lower left bears alternating blue and white diagonal stripes representing the original departments, and the lower right shows a gold key symbolizing Cuba's strategic position. The shield is surmounted by a Phrygian cap on a pike, symbolizing liberty, and flanked on either side by a wreath of laurel and oak branches. The circular legend reads REPUBLICA DE CUBA above and DOS CENTAVOS below, all within a beaded border.
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Cuba's 1915 pattern series was produced as the government evaluated designs and specifications for a revised centavo coinage — proposals that ultimately went nowhere for several years. The KM#PnC10 designation places this among a small cluster of bronze trial pieces struck that year, most in extremely limited numbers with no surviving mint documentation on exact quantities produced.

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