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1 Peso First Spanish Railroad
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Weight | 11.3 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a detailed relief depiction of a 19th-century steam locomotive with tender and open wagons travelling along a railway track, rendered in left-facing profile across the central and lower field. Above the locomotive, a small symbolic key device appears, with the inscription BARCELONA - MATARÓ and the year 1989 positioned to the upper right in the field. The commemorative legend 140 ANIV. DEL 1er FERROCARRIL ESPAÑOL curves along the entire upper periphery from lower left to lower right, while the founding and anniversary dates 1848 • 1988 are inscribed along the lower exergual area. |
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Cuba's first railroad, inaugurated in November 1837, predates Spain's own domestic rail network by nearly a decade — a peculiarity of colonial investment driven by the sugar industry's demand for bulk transport rather than any ambition to modernize the island's infrastructure. The Havana-to-Güines line moved cane, not passengers, as its primary commercial purpose.
This commemorative was part of Cuba's prolific late-1980s hard-currency coin program, issued almost entirely for export sale to foreign collectors rather than domestic circulation.