10 Pesos Hatuey
Features
| Issuer |
Cuba
 |
|---|---|
| Period |
Second Republic (1959-date)
|
| Type | Non-circulating coins |
| Year | 1991 |
| Value | 10 Pesos (10 CUP) |
| Currency | Cuban Peso (moneda nacional, 1914-date) |
| Composition | Silver (.999) |
| Weight | 31.1 g |
| Diameter | 38 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
| Demonetized | 1991 |
| Number | N# 294241 |
| References | KM# 328 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes). José María Aledón; 1999. La moneda de Cuba = The Coin of Cuba. Dobler Difusiones, Havana, Cuba. |
Commemorative issue
Hatuey
Series: Hispan-American Figures
Obverse
Cuban coat of arms, country name as curved legend on top, face value below, 2 5-pointed stars on sides, rope design close to edge on half top, native design on lower half.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
REPUBLICA DE CUBA
1 OZ 10 PESOS AG 0.999
Translation:
Republic of Cuba
1 ounce 10 Pesos silver 0.999
Engraver: Charles Edward Barber
Reverse
Portrait of Hatuey, with name below; event name and date as curved legend on half top, mintmark and issue date to right of image. Native pattern below near edge.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
V CENTENARIO 1492
1991
HATUEY
Translation:
5th. Centenary 1492
1991
Hatuey
Engraver: Belisario Álvarez Collado
Designer: Carmen Menéndez Allende
Edge
Reeded.
Mint
Empresa Cubana de Acuñaciones, Havana, CubaComments
Hatuey was a chief of a Taino tribe from La Española island (today shared by Haiti and Dominican Republic), was prosecuted by Spanish conquistadors in said island and he escaped and reached Cuba.
There, he contacted the main tribes, and warned them the Spanish were looking for gold, and suggested them to get rid of all they had to avoid confrontation.
Bartolomé de las Casas attributed him this speech, showing gold and jewels:
Here is the God the Spaniards worship. For these they fight and kill; for these they persecute us and that is why we have to throw them into the sea... They tell us, these tyrants, that they adore a God of peace and equality, and yet they usurp our land and make us their slaves. They speak to us of an immortal soul and of their eternal rewards and punishments, and yet they rob our belongings, seduce our women, violate our daughters. Incapable of matching us in valor, these cowards cover themselves with iron that our weapons cannot break...
Later, leaded all the tribes, attacking the Spanish with small groups, but owing to the much more advanced technology, al the rebel groups were defeated and eliminated.
Finally Hatuey was captured and executed burned alive.
Hatuey was given the title "First Rebel of America".
There, he contacted the main tribes, and warned them the Spanish were looking for gold, and suggested them to get rid of all they had to avoid confrontation.
Bartolomé de las Casas attributed him this speech, showing gold and jewels:
Here is the God the Spaniards worship. For these they fight and kill; for these they persecute us and that is why we have to throw them into the sea... They tell us, these tyrants, that they adore a God of peace and equality, and yet they usurp our land and make us their slaves. They speak to us of an immortal soul and of their eternal rewards and punishments, and yet they rob our belongings, seduce our women, violate our daughters. Incapable of matching us in valor, these cowards cover themselves with iron that our weapons cannot break...
Later, leaded all the tribes, attacking the Spanish with small groups, but owing to the much more advanced technology, al the rebel groups were defeated and eliminated.
Finally Hatuey was captured and executed burned alive.
Hatuey was given the title "First Rebel of America".
See also
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1 Peso (Hatuey)
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1 Peso (Pinzón brothers)
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1 Peso (Queen Joanna)
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1 Peso (Diego Velázquez)
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10 Pesos (Pinzón Brothers)
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10 Pesos (Diego Velázquez)
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10 Pesos (Queen Joanna)
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30 Pesos (Pinzón Brothers)
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30 Pesos (Hatuey)
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30 Pesos (Queen Joanna)
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30 Pesos (Diego Velázquez)
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50 Pesos (Hatuey)
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50 Pesos (Queen Joanna)
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50 Pesos (Diego Velázquez)
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50 Pesos (Pinzón Brothers)
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50 Pesos (Hatuey)
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50 Pesos (Queen Joanna)
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50 Pesos (Diego Velázquez)
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50 Pesos (Pinzón Brothers)
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100 Pesos (Pinzón Brothers)
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100 Pesos (Queen Joanna)
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100 Pesos (Diego Velázquez)
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100 Pesos (Hatuey)
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| Date | Mintage | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Undetermined | |||||||||||||||
| 1991 | 3 000 | Proof | |||||||||||||
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Numista Rarity index: 93
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Bullion value: USD 73.20
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Actual silver weight: 0.999 oz
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