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5 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1960 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | At centre, an intaglio oval vignette carries a portrait of Máximo Gómez, rendered in black and green tones against a fine guilloche underprint. A serial number in black appears at the left, accompanied by a red circular seal of the Banco Nacional de Cuba, while the denomination in both words and numerals is stated at the margins. A full guarantee clause referencing gold convertibility and the obligation of the Cuban State runs along the lower register. |
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| Reverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE CUBA 5 5 PESOS PESOS 5 5 ESTE BILLETE TIENE CURSO LEGAL Y FUERZA LIBERATORIA ILIMITADA, DE ACUERDO CON LA LEY, PARA EL PAGO DE TODA OBLIGACION CONTRAIDA O A CUMPLIR EN EL TERRITORIO NACIONAL. (Translation: Republic of Cuba 5 5 Pesos Pesos 5 5 This note is legal tender and has unlimited liberatory force, in accordance with the law, for payment of all obligations contracted or to be fulfilled on the whole national territory.) |
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A Cold War curiosity in paper form. This note was printed by the American Bank Note Company in New York — a contract almost certainly placed before the Revolution fully severed U.S.-Cuba economic ties, making it one of the last Cuban issues produced by an American security printer before that relationship ended permanently.
The ABNC's involvement here is notable precisely because of how briefly it continued. By the mid-1960s, Cuban printing contracts had shifted to socialist-bloc partners, and ABNC's long history with Cuban currency was finished.