1 Peso Hatuey

Features

Issuer	Cuba
Period	Second Republic (1959-date)
Type	Non-circulating coins
Year	1991
Value	1 Peso (1 CUP)
Currency	Cuban Peso (moneda nacional, 1914-date)
Composition	Nickel plated steel (NBS (Nickel Bonded Steel))
Weight	12.7 g
Diameter	32.5 mm
Thickness	2 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized	1991
Number	N# 56488
References	KM# 364 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes). , JMA# AAEE437 José María Aledón; 1999. La moneda de Cuba = The Coin of Cuba. Dobler Difusiones, Havana, Cuba.

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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 PESO ★

Translation:
Republic of Cuba
1 Peso

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

Plain

Mint

Empresa Cubana de Acuñaciones, Havana, Cuba

Comments

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 Spaniards' much more advanced technology, all the rebel groups were defeated and eliminated.
Finally Hatuey was captured and executed burned alive.
Hatuey was given the title "First Rebel of America".

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Date			Mintage		VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1991			3 000							$ 12		BU

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