Henry Morgan operated under letters of marque from the English Crown during the 1660s and 1670s, which technically made him a privateer rather than a pirate — a distinction that saved his neck after the 1671 sack of Panama City, one of the most audacious raids in Caribbean history. Rather than hang, he was knighted by Charles II and appointed Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica in 1674.
This piece belongs to Tuvalu's Pirates of the Caribbean series, a Royal Australian Mint program issued under the Australian Monetary Agreement that permits Tuvalu to produce legal tender coinage.
Henry Morgan operated under letters of marque from the English Crown during the 1660s and 1670s, which technically made him a privateer rather than a pirate — a distinction that saved his neck after the 1671 sack of Panama City, one of the most audacious raids in Caribbean history. Rather than hang, he was knighted by Charles II and appointed Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica in 1674.
This piece belongs to Tuvalu's Pirates of the Caribbean series, a Royal Australian Mint program issued under the Australian Monetary Agreement that permits Tuvalu to produce legal tender coinage.