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10 Pesos First Spanish Railroad
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#206, JMA#AAEE268 |
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| Reverse description | A detailed engraving of a 19th-century steam locomotive is depicted in the central field, rendered in profile facing left with fine mechanical detail including driving wheels, smokestack, and tender cars. A small key motif appears above the locomotive in the upper field. The curved legend 140 ANIV. DEL 1er FERROCARRIL ESPAÑOL arcs along the periphery from lower left to upper right. The inscription BARCELONA - MATARÓ is positioned in the upper central field, and the silver fineness legend plata fina 1 oz. 0,999 appears diagonally across the upper portion. The commemorative dates 1848 - 1988 are inscribed along the lower rim. |
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| Reverse lettering | 140 ANIV. DEL 1er FERROCARRIL ESPAÑOL plata fina 1 OZ. 0,999 BARCELONA - MATARÓ 1848 - 1988 (Translation: 140th Anniversary of the first Spanish Railroad pure silver 1 ounce 0.999 Barcelona - Mataró 1848 - 1988) |
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Cuba's first railway, inaugurated in November 1837, predated Spain's own domestic rail network by several years — a peculiarity of colonial investment priorities, where plantation infrastructure for moving sugar took precedence over the metropole's own modernization. The Havana-to-Güines line was financed largely by Cuban creole landowners and British capital, not Madrid.
This coin is part of a broader commemorative program Banco Nacional issued through the late 1980s targeting foreign hard-currency collectors, as Cuba's domestic economy operated almost entirely on non-convertible pesos.