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100 Pesos First Cuban Railroad, Piedfort
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Weight | 62.2 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 150 ANIV. DEL 1er FERROCARRIL HISPANO-AMERICANO 1989 HABANA-BEJUCAL 1837-1987 CUBA ORO FINO 1 OZ. 0.999 (Translation: 150th Anniversary of the 1st Hispano-American Railway 1989 Havana - Bejucal 1837-1987 Cuba fine gold 1 ounce 0.999) |
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Cuba's first railroad, inaugurated in November 1837, predated Spain's own domestic rail network by several years — a colonial anomaly driven entirely by sugar plantation owners who needed faster routes to Havana's port. This piedfort, struck at double the normal flan thickness, belongs to a collector-oriented proof program the Banco Nacional ran through the 1980s partly as a hard-currency earner under the ongoing U.S. embargo.
The piedfort format was rarely applied to Cuban gold issues, making KM#P31 one of the more thinly distributed entries in the JMA reference.