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100 Pesos First Spanish Railroad, Piedfort
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | The central field depicts a detailed engraving of the locomotive employed on the historic Barcelona–Mataró railway line, Spain's first railroad, inaugurated in 1848. A curved commemorative legend arcs across the upper and lateral periphery, identifying the anniversary occasion. Above the locomotive image appear the fineness designation, mintmark, and the served route inscription; the issue year 1989 is also present above the device, while the commemorative date range 1848–1988 is inscribed below the locomotive in the exergue. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Cuba issued this piedfort in 1989 to commemorate the first railway constructed in Spanish colonial territory — a line connecting Havana to Bejucal, inaugurated in November 1837, predating any railroad on the Iberian Peninsula itself by nearly a year. The irony that a colony beat the metropole to rail technology was not lost on contemporaries, and the line was built primarily to haul sugar, not passengers.
Piedfort production from the Banco Nacional during the late 1980s was extremely limited, aimed squarely at the international collector market as Cuba sought hard currency during deepening economic strain.