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1 Peso SIAI Marchetti S55
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Currency | Cuban Peso (moneda nacional, 1914-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a multicolored representation of the SIAI-Marchetti S.55 twin-hulled flying boat in flight, depicted in profile above a stylized water surface with a distant coastline in the background. The aircraft's distinctive twin-boom, twin-hull configuration and biplane wing arrangement are rendered in polychrome enamel applied over the struck design. The inscription SIAI - MARCHETTI S.55 arcs along the upper legend, while the mint mark and the date 1995 appear to the left of the central motif. |
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The SIAI-Marchetti S.55 was an Italian flying boat that achieved genuine fame in 1933 when Italo Balbo led a formation of 24 of them on a mass transatlantic crossing from Orbetello to Chicago — a feat of coordinated long-distance aviation that drew enormous international attention. Cuba's decision to commemorate it six decades later fits within a broader series of aviation-themed collector issues the island produced through the 1990s, largely targeting the foreign hard-currency market rather than domestic circulation.