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5 Pesos Cuban Railway - Piedfort
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1983 |
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| In circulation to | 1983 |
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| Obverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms occupies the central field, depicting a shield with a royal palm, a rising sun, a key, and a fasces, supported by an oak branch and laurel branch tied with a ribbon. The country name REPUBLICA DE CUBA arcs along the upper legend. Flanking inscriptions indicate the weight and fineness of the silver content, while the face value 5 PESOS appears in the lower field. The design reflects the standard heraldic style employed on Cuban collector issues of the period. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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| Additional information |
Cuba issued a small run of piedfort versions of the 1983 railway commemorative series, produced at double the standard planchet thickness — a format used almost exclusively for presentation sets and official gifts rather than general collector distribution. The piedfort designation accounts for the elevated weight relative to the standard strike without any change in diameter.
The timing connects to Cuba's broader effort in the early 1980s to generate hard currency through numismatic exports, a program coordinated largely through the Casa de la Moneda and marketed heavily to European collectors via state trading companies.