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The Cuban Cigar Collector's Handbook
Phase 2: Cuban Series

The Cuban Cigar Collector's Handbook

Building, Authenticating, and Valuing a Serious Cuban Collection

Miguel's deep reference for the serious Habanos collector. Built from twenty-five years of buying, trading, and authenticating Cuban cigars across LCDH stores, auctions, and private trades worldwide.

Launches 2026-07-14. Drop your email and we will tell you the day it goes live on Amazon.

By Miguel Solano 36,598 words ~160 pages Launches 2026-07-14

Inside this book

  • Box codes and factory codes: the full reference table
  • Vintage valuation: which years, brands, and lines appreciate
  • LCDH global guide: stocking patterns, allocation, etiquette
  • Auction strategy for Cuban lots: Bonhams, Christie's, C.Gars
  • Building a collection by theme: brand, factory, year, region
  • The counterfeit tier list and how to avoid each tier

About the author

Miguel Solano

Lead Author, The Modern Cigar Library

Miguel Solano started smoking cigars in 1997 when his friend Augusto Reyes handed him a Fuente Hemingway Short Story at a lounge in Coral Gables. That cigar changed his life. Since then he has built a career in the premium cigar industry that has taken him to factories in Nicaragua, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic, to fermentation warehouses in Cuba, and to every PCA trade show since the late 1990s. He consults with boutique producers, maintains relationships with distributors and retailers across the Americas, and writes the books he wishes had existed when he was learning. He lives in South Florida with his wife Liliana, who manages the spreadsheets that track his cigar spending, and their cigar friends who fill the screened porch his late father Gerardo used to sit on every night.

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