20 Pesos Ignacio Agramonte; Pattern

This is a pattern issue, never approved for circulation, produced during a period when Cuba was experimenting with a proposed higher-denomination coinage series honoring figures of the Ten Years' War. Agramonte, the cavalry commander killed at Jimaguayú in 1873, was a natural candidate — his death came before Cuban independence was achieved, which gave the revolutionary government an unambiguous hero untainted by the compromises of the republic era.

Brass patterns of this type are rarely documented in Cuban numismatic records, and surviving examples likely number in the dozens at most.