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20 Pesos First Railroad in England
| Issuer | Banco Nacional de Cuba |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Value | 20 Pesos (20 CUP) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE CUBA BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA 20 PESOS (Translation: Republic of Cuba National Bank of Cuba 20 Pesos) |
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| Reverse lettering | 160 ANIV. DEL 1er FERROCARRIL DEL MUNDO PLATA FINA 2 OZ. 0.999 1988 LIVERPOOL - MANCHESTER 1830-1990 |
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Cuba's hard-currency commemorative program of the 1980s was explicitly designed to generate foreign exchange, not domestic circulation — these pieces were sold abroad through state trading companies while Cubans used pesos they could never legally exchange. The series drew on themes deliberately chosen to appeal to European collectors, which explains the otherwise puzzling decision to commemorate British railway history on a Cuban coin.
The Stockton and Darlington Railway opened in September 1825, though it relied on horse traction for much of its early freight work alongside Stephenson's locomotive.