I know it's darkside, but this is one of my favorites...

Lazybones

1915 Cuban Peso. Charles Barber engraved. I'd like to find one in UNC...

rec78

A perfectly legal coin, but ebay does not differentiate by date so they ban all Cuban coin listings. You may be able to find one at a coin show or some other venue.

PerryHall

I like how they show the weight as being 26.7295 G. That is really being specific.

LanceNewmanOCC

@Lazybones said:
1915 Cuban Peso. Charles Barber engraved. I'd like to find one in UNC...

it may be a different denom but i recall something about a 1915 cuba coin with the star as having a common and scarce type. size of star, or amount of rays? don't recall but may be worth taking a few moments. if this is a big silver coin, not the same as i think the one i had was quarter size.

rec78

It is a shame that the boycott of Cuban items is still in existence after almost 60 years. Fidel Castro is gone. End the boycott.

yosclimber

@LanceNewmanOCC said:

@Lazybones said:
1915 Cuban Peso. Charles Barber engraved. I'd like to find one in UNC...

it may be a different denom but i recall something about a 1915 cuba coin with the star as having a common and scarce type. size of star, or amount of rays? don't recall but may be worth taking a few moments. if this is a big silver coin, not the same as i think the one i had was quarter size.

There are varieties for high relief and low relief star.
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces9263.html

BillJones

@rec78 said:
It is a shame that the boycott of Cuban items is still in existence after almost 60 years. Fidel Castro is gone. End the boycott.

Even if he were still in power, why ban the coin? It’s like saying you can’t sell or collect a KKK token. The organization is loathsome, but the piece is still a piece of history.

ricko

Coin shows would be a venue where you may find them....or post on the BST specifically what you are looking for. Also post on the World Coin forum here... Good luck, Cheers, RickO

Lazybones

Will our hosts slab it?

amwldcoin

Of Course!

@Lazybones said:
Will our hosts slab it?

Lazybones

@ricko said:
Coin shows would be a venue where you may find them....or post on the BST specifically what you are looking for. Also post on the World Coin forum here... Good luck, Cheers, RickO

Off to post on the darkside!

DNADave

I like that coin too!

I was able to pick this up at an antique store in Ohio this weekend. Not the same thing of course but I couldn’t pass up the Cuba.

Zoins

Interesting coins that were made by the US Mint!

This makes me interested to find out what was happening in Cuba during WWI.

It became part of the US in the 1898 Spanish-American War but soon became independent in 1902. I've always wondered why the Philippines became part of the US for half a century but Cuba did not.

What was early independence like in Cuba? They were obviously getting coins made by the US. Who makes their coins now and when did a switch happen?

From Wikipedia, it turns out there was a congressional amendment, the Teller Amendment, prevented annexation.

The proposed amendment gained support from several forces:

... those who opposed annexing territory containing large numbers of blacks and Catholics, those who sincerely supported Cuban independence, and representatives of the domestic sugar business, including sponsor Senator Henry Teller of Colorado, who feared Cuban competition.
...
According to Gregory Weeks, author of U.S. and Latin American Relations (Peason, 2008, p. 56), "The Teller Amendment, authored by a Colorado Senator who wanted to make sure that Cuba's sugar would not compete with his state's crop of beet sugar, prohibited the president annexing Cuba."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teller_Amendment#The_Teller_Amendment

cecropiamoth

Here is a trio of Philadelphia minted Cuban pesos. Represented are the last year of the Star pesos (struck 1915-16, 1932-34), first year of the ABC peso (struck 1934-39) and the Jose Marti birth centennial peso (1953).

Jeff