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Cuban peso: research record

Evidence coverage: 1914–2021. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.

This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.

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Currency continuity

Cuban peso

CUP · Research draft
One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor.
Current currency in the inherited endpoint register.
Dated observations: 1914–2021; this does not establish the entire lifetime.

Parents / predecessors

Children / successors

No distinct successor currency is established in the loaded view.

Unit and issue records 2 records

Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.

Cuban Peso — endpoint research dossierFTM000772 · C599
Earlier accounting observation · C1201

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Earlier unit continuity

The national peso was established by the 1914 law, and practical conversion of accounts to the new system was reported complete by June 1916.

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Monetary history 1 events

Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.

1 January 2021: statutory unification startStatutory currency unification

Decree-Law 17 sets monetary unification from 1 January 2021 and initially provides 180 days for withdrawing the convertible peso; this does not establish the final deadline after later amendments.

C599
Evidence & research notes 3 claims

Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.

Supported C599

Decree-Law 17 sets monetary unification from 1 January 2021 and initially provides 180 days for withdrawing the convertible peso; this does not establish the final deadline after later amendments.

Republic of Cuba; original Gazette hosted by ILO NATLEX · Decreto-Ley 17/2020, Gaceta Oficial No.68 Extraordinaria Citation S331 · Open source ↗

PDF pp.4–5 / printed pp.512–513, articles 2–7 and final provision four

Supported C1180

Cuba’s national peso replaced local Spanish-gold peso accounting through the 1914–1916 monetary reform.

Commercial and Financial Chronicle, digitized by Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis · Commercial and Financial Chronicle, 13 November 1915 Citation S585 · Open source ↗

Printed pp.1593–1594, paragraph continuing shipment of Spanish and French gold; p1594 left column first paragraph; Chapter XXXIII, paragraphs defining peso oro Español and stating peseta never became local unit; printed pp.363–364, account conversion completed practically by 1 June 1916

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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Willis Fletcher Johnson · The History of Cuba, volume V, chapter XXXIII: Money and Banking (1920) Citation S586 · Open source ↗

Printed pp.1593–1594, paragraph continuing shipment of Spanish and French gold; p1594 left column first paragraph; Chapter XXXIII, paragraphs defining peso oro Español and stating peseta never became local unit; printed pp.363–364, account conversion completed practically by 1 June 1916

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1201

The national peso was established by the 1914 law, and practical conversion of accounts to the new system was reported complete by June 1916.

Commercial and Financial Chronicle, digitized by Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis · Commercial and Financial Chronicle, 13 November 1915 Citation S585 · Open source ↗

Printed pp.1593–1594, paragraph continuing shipment of Spanish and French gold; p1594 left column first paragraph; Chapter XXXIII, paragraphs defining peso oro Español and stating peseta never became local unit; printed pp.363–364, account conversion completed practically by 1 June 1916

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Willis Fletcher Johnson · The History of Cuba, volume V, chapter XXXIII: Money and Banking (1920) Citation S586 · Open source ↗

Printed pp.1593–1594, paragraph continuing shipment of Spanish and French gold; p1594 left column first paragraph; Chapter XXXIII, paragraphs defining peso oro Español and stating peseta never became local unit; printed pp.363–364, account conversion completed practically by 1 June 1916

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

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