$1 — One Peso
The artwork
Front: The obelisk and seated marble figure of the Monumento a José Martí in Havana's Plaza de la Revolución, captioned in small type at the right. Behind it, a rosette of radiating fan shapes over a stippled tan ground, with CUBA in a patterned band along the top. "UN PESO / pesos convertibles" sits at the centre above the convertibility guarantee text; the numeral 1 and a plain star fill the pale blue right-hand panel.
Back: A single monochrome vignette on a lilac and pale yellow guilloche ground, captioned CAÍDA EN COMBATE DE JOSÉ MARTÍ: Martí falling at Dos Ríos in May 1895, his horse down in the grass and a riderless mount rearing among the trees behind. The wide right-hand panel is left blank but for a large numeral 1 and PESO CONVERTIBLE, with matching 1s in the lower corners.
In circulation
The convertible peso ran alongside the ordinary Cuban peso from 1994, this design dated Año 2007. Monetary unification ended it: the CUC ceased to be legal tender at the start of 2021 and was redeemed over the following months, leaving the Cuban peso as the island's sole currency.
Details
- IssuerBanco Central de Cuba
- CurrencyPeso ($)
- DenominationOne Peso
- Collectedon the Cuba journeys, 1996–2015
- SeriesAño 2007, peso convertible
- SignatureSingle signature, Presidente del Banco
- SecurityPrinted guarantee of full backing by internationally convertible values, exchangeable for freely convertible currency at the Banco Central de Cuba; red serial AC 14 297127, horizontal and vertical