My Cuban notes collection

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Hey folks, the high amount of unrequested offers for me to sell this collection have actually made me decide to hang on to it...at least for now. I never knew people thought these notes were that interesting. Given that this collection cost me $0 to put together, as it was all gifts, I assumed they weren't that interesting to most people so I never bothered with it. However, all the attention has made me rethink this collection and I think I'll take some time to study these notes and see where I go from here.

Who knows, maybe I can expand on this collection when I go to Cuba in 3 weeks.

I am sending a freebie note to @Paddy54 as I am honestly quite impressed with his love of Cuban things. It is a $100 Peso (pre-1959) as he doesn't seem to have one.

 

Thanks for the kind offer....it's greatly appreciated

 

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Jimmy+Buffett+Havana+day+dreaming&qpvt=Jimmy+Buffett

 

Yes, a good Cuban cigars is one of those simple pleasures of life that enrich one's journey through this mad world we live in, and brightens one's day ans uplifts their spirit.

 

LoL just smoked one of those Romeo y Julieta this morning I like those even more so than Cohibas. The Romeo y Julieta in the tube are nice they stay fresh.

 

You know, that Indian is no ordinary generic Indian on a logo. That is Hatuey, a native Taino who fled the Dominican Republic in 1511 with 400 warriors and tried to warn the native Cuban tribes about the upcoming Spanish invasion, and to rally them to fight. Most Cuban tribes did not heed the message, and were thus not prepared and were easily slaughtered by the Spaniards.

Hatuey did his best to stall the Spaniards, and for a while he kept them at bay, but he was eventually captured and tied to a stake and burned alive.

Before he was burned, a Spanish priest asked him to convert and accept Jesus Christ so that he would go to heaven. Hatuey thought about it and asked the priest "Do the Spaniards go to heaven?" When the priest said yes, Hatuey said "Then I'd rather go to hell so as to never again witness such a cruel people."

Sadly the native Cubans were almost completely ethnically cleansed. Indigenous DNA in Cuba is almost non-existent, and confined to a small portion of people's DNA in a few remote towns in Cuba. The extermination was so thorough that the native languages, customs, and religions were all lost to history.

 

Yes I was aware of this...and sad as part of history vanished never to be seen again.

 

on a brighter note....one of my favorite places to break bread is on 3555 SW 8th st. Miami Fl. Do you know this place?
today's specials
Tuesday
Sweet Crust Chicken Pie
7.95
Served with house salad

“Pulpeta”
6.75
Cuban meatloaf served with moros rice and sweet plantains

Yellow Corn Meal Stew
Ground tender corn cooked with pork meat served with sweet plantains
Price
5.95
7.75
Chick Pea Pottage
Cooked with ham and spanish sausage
Price
3.95
4.95
“Vaca Frita De Pollo”
9.95
Grilled shredded chicken with onions served with white rice and sweet plantains

“Imperial Rice”
7.95
Rice cooked with saffron and deboned chicken, mayonnaise, roasted bell peppers, a hard boiled egg and green peas served with sweet plantains

 

Beautiful note thanks for posting

 

Yeah, Versailles restaurant. Of course, that place is famous.

 

That place is the bomb!

 

One from my small collection of Cuban notes.

 

I believe the current Cuba peso is 1:1 ( or almost) to the USD.
So my question is, what is the face value of the old pre embargo pesos like this
1000 note? (Compared to it's collector value.) Thanks.

 

Cuba has two different pesos, the "regular" peso (CUP) and the convertible peso (CUC). The latter was originally for tourists visiting Cuba, but these days both Cubans and visitors can and do use both. (From what I have read, the CUC will be phased out at some point; who knows.) The controlled USD exchange rates are 1-1 for the CUC, and about 1-25 for the CUP.

Christian