200 Pesos

The Tesoro de la Isla de Cuba notes of 1891 were issued under Spanish colonial administration, functioning as treasury obligations rather than conventional bank notes — a distinction that affected how they circulated and how they were redeemed. By 1891, Cuban finances were under severe strain from debt servicing obligations imposed by Madrid, and this higher denomination would have moved primarily through commercial and governmental channels rather than everyday trade.

Bradbury, Wilkinson's engraving work for colonial and quasi-sovereign issuers was extensive in this period; the Cuban treasury series was one of several Latin American government contracts they held simultaneously through the 1880s and 1890s.