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10 Dollars Expulsion of pirates
| Issuer | The Bahamas |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The "Expulsion of Pirates" theme references the early eighteenth-century crackdown centered on Nassau, then one of the Caribbean's most notorious pirate havens. Woodes Rogers arrived as Royal Governor in 1718 with a royal pardon in one hand and a hanging order in the other — ten men were executed that September, effectively ending New Providence's decade as a freeport for the likes of Blackbeard and Charles Vane.
Rogers's own motto, *Expulsis Piratis Restituta Commercia* ("Pirates expelled, commerce restored"), later became the Bahamian national motto.