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1 Peso Zeppelin
| Issuer | Republic of Cuba |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Engraver(s) | Charles Edward Barber |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | MEDIOS DE TRANSPORTE 1988 ZEPPELIN |
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Cuba issued a wave of collector-targeted commemorative pieces throughout the 1980s, many of them tied to subjects with no particular connection to the island — the Zeppelin series among them. The LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin did overfly Cuba during its 1928 Pan-American voyage, which provides at least a thread of justification for the theme, though the 1988 date places this decades removed from any direct relevance.
These issues were produced primarily for hard currency export sales, a common revenue mechanism for the Castro government during a period of acute foreign exchange shortage.