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5 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Español de la Isla de Cuba |
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| Year | 1896-1897 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a seated female allegorical figure facing right, her gaze directed leftward, reclining against harbour bales and holding a caduceus aloft in her raised right hand, with a hair band in her coiffure. A seascape with sailing ships occupies the right portion of the design. |
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| Reverse description | Central medallion bearing the crowned coat of arms of Spain encircled by the collar and badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece, rendered in a detailed intaglio vignette on a plain field. |
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The Banco Español de la Isla de Cuba was, by the mid-1890s, issuing currency into an economy increasingly disrupted by the Cuban War of Independence. This note belongs to the final years of Spanish colonial banking on the island — the bank's charter was effectively terminated following the 1898 Spanish-American War, making the 1896–97 series among the last it would ever produce.
ABNC handled the printing throughout the bank's later decades, a relationship common among Latin American and Caribbean issuers of the period who lacked domestic security printing infrastructure.