Caribbean P103d 5 pesos 1990 UNC | green 90825J7

This 5 peso design was printed in Czechoslovakia and issued from 1967–1990. You will get a banknote of this design, dated 1990,  in uncirculated condition.

Front: Antonio Maceo

Back: depicts a guerrilla landing and advance during the final revolutionary offensive of September–October 1958, when insurgent columns expanded operations beyond the mountains and pressed toward decisive urban targets. Shown are armed fighters disembarking and moving inland, a compressed visual of the late-stage campaign that broke the old regime’s control by opening new fronts, cutting transport lines, and accelerating defections. Rather than a single skirmish, the scene symbolizes the coordinated incursions and territorial push that culminated weeks later in victory, turning the image into a mythic shorthand for momentum, popular mobilization, and the irreversible collapse of the prior order.

Antonio Maceo was one of the most formidable military leaders of the 19th century Caribbean world, renowned for his tactical brilliance, iron discipline, and uncompromising opposition to both colonial rule and racial hierarchy. Nicknamed El Titán de Bronce (“The Bronze Titan”), he rose from modest origins to become a general through sheer merit, surviving dozens of battle wounds while leading mobile, lightning-fast campaigns that reshaped modern guerrilla warfare. Beyond the battlefield, Maceo was a fierce political thinker: he rejected any independence that preserved slavery, foreign domination, or elite privilege, insisting instead on a republic grounded in equality and sovereignty. His death in combat in 1896 sealed his status not merely as a war hero, but as a moral compass for the nation he fought to liberate.