50 Pesos Queen Joanna
Features
| Issuer |
Cuba
 |
|---|---|
| Period |
Second Republic (1959-date)
|
| Type | Non-circulating coins |
| Year | 1991 |
| Value | 50 Pesos (50 CUP) |
| Currency | Cuban Peso (moneda nacional, 1914-date) |
| Composition | Silver (.999) |
| Weight | 155.5 g |
| Diameter | 65 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
| Demonetized | 1991 |
| Number | N# 294250 |
| References | KM# 432 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes). José María Aledón; 1999. La moneda de Cuba = The Coin of Cuba. Dobler Difusiones, Havana, Cuba. |
Commemorative issue
Queen Joanna of Spain
Series: Hispan-American Figures
Obverse
Cuban coat of arms, country name as curved legend on top, face value below, weight and fineness on sides, rope design close to edge.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
REPUBLICA DE CUBA
5 OZ 50 PESOS AG 0.999
Translation:
Republic of Cuba
5 ounces 50 Pesos silver 0.999
Engraver: Charles Edward Barber
Reverse
Bust of Queen Joanna, with name and title below; event name as curved legend on half top, date on bottom; issue date and mintmark to right of image. Rope design around near edge.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
★ V CENTENARIO ★
1991
IOANNA ★ 1492 ★ HISP • REG
Translation:
5th. Centenary
1991
Joanna 1492 Spanish Queen
Engraver: Francisco Puen Ávila
Designer: Francisco Puen Ávila
Edge
Reeded.
Mint
Empresa Cubana de Acuñaciones, Havana, CubaComments
Queen Joanna, daughter of the "Catholic King and Queen" of Spain, in fact was the first monarch of Spain, cause her father, Ferdinand was King of Aragon (and other reigns), and her mother, Isabella was Queen of Castile (and other reigns).
Her life was complicated, as, in spite of the strict religious style of her parents, she was reluctant to rites, and indifferent to religion in general.
Joanna was the third kid, so had few chances to inherit the kingdoms, but owing to the death of her elder siblings (John and Isabella), while living their parents, and her nephew Michael (son of Isabella), she became Queen of Castile upon the death of her mother, on 1504.
King Ferdinand declared his daughter as Queen of Castile. On 1506, Joanna husband (Philip, "the handsome") died, and a few later, on 1509, King Ferdinand, arguing mental problems of her, became regent for Castile, being Joanna confined at Tordesillas Royal Castle. After death of King Ferdinand, on 1516, Joanna's son Charles (seventeen years old at the moment), assumed as co-King to reign together with Joanna, but in fact, he managed to keep the queen confined, owing to alleged mental illness of Joanna, and became Charles I.
On 1520, a revolt gave freedom to Joanna, but on 1521 charles defeated the revolt, and took control again, confining in the castle his mother for the rest of her life.
Joanna shared her confinement with her youngest daughter Catalin, till she left to marry the Portugal king on 1525.
Queen Joanna is known as "Joanna the mad", but recent findings tend to confirm the mental illness was the argument used first by her father, the King Ferdinand, and later by her son, King Charles to maintain the power of Spain. Is noticeably the lack of documentation of the period, investigators think such documentation was destroyed or hidden by the kings.
Her life was complicated, as, in spite of the strict religious style of her parents, she was reluctant to rites, and indifferent to religion in general.
Joanna was the third kid, so had few chances to inherit the kingdoms, but owing to the death of her elder siblings (John and Isabella), while living their parents, and her nephew Michael (son of Isabella), she became Queen of Castile upon the death of her mother, on 1504.
King Ferdinand declared his daughter as Queen of Castile. On 1506, Joanna husband (Philip, "the handsome") died, and a few later, on 1509, King Ferdinand, arguing mental problems of her, became regent for Castile, being Joanna confined at Tordesillas Royal Castle. After death of King Ferdinand, on 1516, Joanna's son Charles (seventeen years old at the moment), assumed as co-King to reign together with Joanna, but in fact, he managed to keep the queen confined, owing to alleged mental illness of Joanna, and became Charles I.
On 1520, a revolt gave freedom to Joanna, but on 1521 charles defeated the revolt, and took control again, confining in the castle his mother for the rest of her life.
Joanna shared her confinement with her youngest daughter Catalin, till she left to marry the Portugal king on 1525.
Queen Joanna is known as "Joanna the mad", but recent findings tend to confirm the mental illness was the argument used first by her father, the King Ferdinand, and later by her son, King Charles to maintain the power of Spain. Is noticeably the lack of documentation of the period, investigators think such documentation was destroyed or hidden by the kings.
See also
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1 Peso (Hatuey)
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1 Peso (Pinzón brothers)
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1 Peso (Queen Joanna)
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1 Peso (Diego Velázquez)
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10 Pesos (Pinzón Brothers)
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10 Pesos (Hatuey)
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10 Pesos (Diego Velázquez)
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10 Pesos (Queen Joanna)
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30 Pesos (Pinzón Brothers)
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30 Pesos (Hatuey)
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30 Pesos (Queen Joanna)
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30 Pesos (Diego Velázquez)
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50 Pesos (Hatuey)
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50 Pesos (Diego Velázquez)
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50 Pesos (Pinzón Brothers)
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50 Pesos (Hatuey)
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50 Pesos (Queen Joanna)
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50 Pesos (Diego Velázquez)
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50 Pesos (Pinzón Brothers)
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100 Pesos (Pinzón Brothers)
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100 Pesos (Queen Joanna)
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100 Pesos (Diego Velázquez)
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100 Pesos (Hatuey)
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| Date | Mintage | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Undetermined | |||||||||||||||
| 1991 | 1 000 | Proof | |||||||||||||
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Bullion value: USD 364.51
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Actual silver weight: 4.994 oz
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