1 Peso Queen Joanna

1 Peso (Queen Joanna) - obverse1 Peso (Queen Joanna) - reverse

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Features

Issuer Cuba
Period Second Republic (1959-date)
Type Non-circulating coin
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#
51450
References KM# 366,
Tracy L. Schmidt (editor); 2019. Standard Catalog of World Coins / 2001-Date (14th edition). Krause Publications, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States.
And 5 more volumes.
JMA# AAEE436
José María Aledón; 1999. La moneda de Cuba. Dobler Difusiones, Valencia, Spain.

Commemorative issue

Queen Joanna of Spain

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.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
REPUBLICA DE CUBA
★ 1 PESO ★

Translation:
Republic of Cuba
1 Peso

Engraver: Charles Edward Barber

Reverse

Bust of Queen Joanna, with name and title below; event name as curved legend on half top, date on bottom; issue date and mintmark to right of image. Rope design around near edge.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
★ V CENTENARIO ★
1991
IOANNA ★ 1492 ★ HISP • REG

Translation:
5th. Centenary
1991
Joanna 1492 Spanish Queen

Engraver: Francisco Puen Ávila

Designer: Francisco Puen Ávila

Edge

Smooth

Mint

Empresa Cubana de Acuñaciones, Havana, Cuba

Comments

Queen Joanna, daughter of the "Catholic King and Queen" of Spain, in fact was the first monarch of Spain, cause her father, Ferdinand was King of Aragon (and other reigns), and her mother, Isabella was Queen of Castile (and other reigns).
Her life was complicated, as, in spite of the strict religious style of her parents, she was reluctant to rites, and indifferent to religion in general.
Joanna was the third kid, so had few chances to inherit the kingdoms, but owing to the death of her elder siblings (John and Isabella), while living their parents, and her nephew Michael (son of Isabella), she became Queen of Castile upon the death of her mother, on 1504.
King Ferdinand declared his daughter as Queen of Castile. On 1506, Joanna husband (Philip, "the handsome") died, and a few later, on 1509, King Ferdinand, arguing mental problems of her, became regent for Castile, being Joanna confined at Tordesillas Royal Castle. After death of King Ferdinand, on 1516, Joanna's son Charles (seventeen years old at the moment), assumed as co-King to reign together with Joanna, but in fact, he managed to keep the queen confined, owing to alleged mental illness of Joanna, and became Charles I.
On 1520, a revolt gave freedom to Joanna, but on 1521 charles defeated the revolt, and took control again, confining in the castle his mother for the rest of her life.
Joanna shared her confinement with her youngest daughter Catalin, till she left to marry the Portugal king on 1525.
Queen Joanna is known as "Joanna the mad", but recent findings tend to confirm the mental illness was the argument used first by her father, the King Ferdinand, and later by her son, King Charles to maintain the power of Spain. Is noticeably the lack of documentation of the period, investigators think such documentation was destroyed or hidden by the kings.

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC
1991  Photo 3 000 $ 9.70 BU

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Past sales

Pictures Sale Date Grade Sold price
Picture 1 of a sold 1 Peso (Queen Joanna)
Katz
Auction 84
Lot 1098
Internet Archive
27 May 2023 UNC USD 7.55
(EUR 7.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
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