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1 Peso Piet Heyn
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Value | 1 Peso (1 CUP) |
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| Reverse lettering | PIRATAS DEL CARIBE PIET HEYN * * 1995 (Translation: Pirates of the Caribbean Piet Heyn 1995) |
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Piet Heyn's 1628 capture of the Spanish silver fleet in Matanzas Bay — the only truly successful seizure of an entire treasure convoy in the history of the Caribbean — netted the Dutch West India Company roughly 11.5 million guilders and briefly crippled Spanish colonial finance. The raid took place in Cuban waters, which gives Cuba a plausible geographic claim to commemorating him, though Heyn sailed under the Dutch flag and died two years later fighting Flemish pirates in the North Sea.