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5 Pesos First Joint Space Flight
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1980 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE CUBA 12 G. 5 PESOS AG 0.999 (Translation: 12g. 5 Pesos silver 0.999) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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This piece commemorates the July 1980 mission of Soyuz 38, which carried Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez alongside Soviet commander Yuri Romanenko to the Salyut 6 space station. Tamayo Méndez became the first person of African descent and the first Latin American to reach orbit — a propaganda victory Havana milked extensively in print, postage, and coinage alike.
Cuba's commemorative silver program of this period was produced primarily for foreign hard-currency sales rather than domestic circulation, given the island's chronic shortage of convertible currency in the post-1959 economy.