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1 Peso First Railroad in England

Issuer Cuba
Year 1989
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Value 1 Peso (1 CUP)
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Obverse script Latin
Obverse lettering REPUBLICA DE CUBA ★ 1 PESO ★
(Translation: Republic of Cuba 1 Peso)
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Additional information

This piece belongs to Cuba's extensive commemorative program of the 1980s, during which the Cuban Mint issued dozens of collector-targeted pieces in copper-nickel and silver, many tied to international historical themes with no direct connection to Cuban history. The English railway reference — almost certainly George Stephenson's Stockton and Darlington line of 1825 — was a common subject recycled across multiple socialist-bloc commemorative programs of the period.

Mintages for the copper-nickel issues in this series were modest, produced primarily for the tourist and numismatic export market rather than domestic circulation.

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