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25 Cents Pirates of Barbados - Blackbeard
| Issuer | Central Bank of Barbados |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1973-date) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a dramatic full-length portrait of the infamous pirate Blackbeard (Edward Teach) standing in three-quarter view, armed with a flintlock pistol and a long staff, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, long coat, and boots. Behind him, a large stylized skull looms in the background field alongside a nautical compass rose and the silhouette of a small figure. The border is decorated with alternating skull-and-crossbones and Jolly Roger motifs. The legend BLACKBEARD arcs prominently along the upper border, with the date 2018 inscribed in the lower field. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Blackbeard — Edward Teach, or possibly Thatch — operated extensively in Caribbean waters between roughly 1716 and 1718, and Barbados falls squarely within his documented raiding range. He was killed in November 1718 off Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina, by a Royal Navy lieutenant acting on orders from the Governor of Virginia, who had grown exasperated with colonial governors who tolerated piracy for commercial reasons. Barbados itself had a complicated relationship with buccaneers; its merchant class often quietly profited from pirate trade networks.
The coin is legal tender at face value, though its gold plating makes the economics of that proposition absurd.