Tag: peso

• Mexico’s 500 Pesos Note: Celebrating Frida Kahlo

  

  The art world was abuzz recently. Two famous paintings sold at auctions, fetching record prices. One sold for $236.4 million and the other for $54.7 million. One was by Gustav Klimt, a European artist, and the other by female Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo. Kahlo is the inspiration behind this post. Her self-portrait, The Dream (The…

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  November 26, 2025

  North America

  art, banknotes, currency, frida-kahlo, Kahlo, Mexico, painting, peso, self-portrait, travel

• A Revolutionary Bill and Figure: Cuba’s 3 Peso Note

  

  The Peso (CUP), is Cuba’s national currency and has been circulating within the island nation since 1857 in various forms. Cuba, like many other Caribbean islands and nearby Central American nations have indelible links to Spain manifested in culture, language and monetary policy. As a result, the Peso is quite ubiquitous within the Latin world…

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  May 16, 2024

  Caribbean

  banknotes, capitalist, Che, communist, Cuba, currency, dollars, Guevara, history, island, peso, politics, travel