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5 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1967-1990 |
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| Size | 150 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse description | At center, an oval vignette carries an intaglio portrait of Antonio Maceo, with the issuer's name arched across the top. Face value numerals appear in all four corners, with the denomination in letters at upper left; a red series designation (one letter and two digits to 1972; two letters and two digits from 1984) is printed at lower left and center right, while a six-digit red serial number occupies center left and upper right. The issuing year is shown at lower left and upper right. |
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| Reverse description | A central vignette illustrates the Invasion of 1958, with the country name inscribed across the top. Face value numerals are placed at both the left and right ends, with the denomination in letters above and below the numeral panels; the months and year of the historical event (September–October 1958) appear as part of the design inscription. |
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The Banco Nacional de Cuba series printed by Státní Tiskárna Cenin (STC) in Prague reflects the economic realignment that followed the 1960 nationalizations, when Cuba's printing contracts shifted away from Western security printers toward Soviet-bloc suppliers. STC had extensive experience producing currency for socialist states and became Cuba's primary printer for decades.
P#103 spans an unusually long issue window — over two decades — during which Cuba's economy lurched through the sugar dependency crises of the 1970s and the rectification campaigns of the late 1980s. Notes from the early printings within this range are generally harder to attribute by date, as the series carried no year on the face.