10 Pesos First Spanish Railroad

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.