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Banknote, 1 Peso, Banco Nacional de Cuba, 1968

Banknote

One-peso note, Martí obverse / Havana-entry reverse. Note this series uses a redesigned face layout (denomination and serials repositioned to the sides, "AÑO 1968").

Banknote, 1 Peso, Banco Nacional de Cuba, 1968 Banknote, 1 Peso, Banco Nacional de Cuba, 1968

2025.20.24

Issued by the Banco Nacional de Cuba in the early revolutionary period. The reverse commemorates the triumphal entry into Havana of January 1959, tying the note directly to the founding iconography of the Revolution. Cuban-produced circulating currency.

2025.20

Gift

1968

1960s

Cuban Peso

1

Banco Nacional de Cuba

1968

serial 127367; prefix ⊤ 18

Type legends; "AÑO 1968"; serial 127367; prefix ⊤ 18 (control-letter reading uncertain); single "PRESIDENTE DEL BANCO" signature panel.

"REPUBLICA DE CUBA," "ENTRADA A LA HABANA 8 DE ENERO DE 1959," legal-tender legend

Good

Banco Nacional de Cuba

Havana

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

Imagery

Castro's entry in Havana