...Cuba - 20 Peso Convertibles Dated 2009

República de Cuba

(Republic of Cuba)

Banco Central de Cuba
(Central Bank of Cuba)
 Currency - Peso (CUP)

This is an odd note of 20 pesos that I have in my collection. This note was given to me by a collector friend some years ago.

 

This note depicts Camilo Cienfuegos, a Cuban revolutionary who was born in Havana in 1932 and died in 1959. It was believed that he died in a small plane crash into the Straits of Florida. Together with Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and a few other Cuban revolutionaries, they successfully overthrown Fulgencio Batista's government in Cuba in 1956, following the Granma (name of a yacht) expedition, which sailed from Mexico to Cuba. Fulgencio Batista was the President of Cuba from 1940 to 1944; 1948 to 1952; and from 1952 to 1959, and he died in Spain in 1973 from a heart attack.

 

Twenty Pesos

Dated 2009, Camilo Cienfuegos (b.1932 - 1959)

Man with bunch of bananas (a hand) on his back, harvesting, agricultural scenes.

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