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10 Pesos 150 years of Swiss Railroad
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Diameter | 35 mm |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms occupies the central field, depicting a shield surmounted by a Phrygian cap on a pike, flanked by an oak branch to the left and a laurel branch to the right, with two fasces below. The circular legend 'REPUBLICA DE CUBA' arcs along the upper periphery. The face value '10 PESOS' is inscribed below the arms, while the weight '15 G' and fineness 'AG 0.999' appear in the side fields, affirming the coin's silver content and purity. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Cuba's hard-currency commemorative program of the 1990s was essentially a foreign exchange operation — these coins were never intended for domestic circulation and were sold almost exclusively to European and North American collectors through state export channels. The Swiss railway connection is a peculiar choice for Havana to celebrate, but the program routinely issued pieces honoring foreign anniversaries with no direct Cuban relevance, targeting collector markets in the commemorated country itself.
Switzerland's federal railway network, the SBB, was formally unified in 1902 after the federal government nationalized the financially troubled private lines — making 1996 the 150th anniversary of the first Swiss rail service, which ran between Zurich and Baden in 1847.