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50 Pesos Piet Heyn
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Value | 50 Pesos (50 CUP) |
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| Reverse description | The central field features a large colorized circular vignette depicting a dynamic battle scene on a Caribbean beach with three figures in 17th-century costume: at center, a ruffled-collar commander identified as Piet Heyn brandishes a cutlass, flanked by a parrot-bearing pirate to the left and a kneeling adversary to the right, with a treasure chest, palm tree, and galleon-filled sea visible in the background. The name PIET HEYN is inscribed in the upper portion of the colorized field. The series title PIRATAS DEL CARIBE arcs boldly along the upper border of the raised rim, and the issue year 1995 is inscribed along the lower border, flanked by two five-pointed stars on each side. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Piet Heyn's fame rests on a single audacious act: in 1628, commanding a Dutch West India Company fleet in Matanzas Bay, he captured the entire Spanish silver fleet — roughly 11.5 million guilders in treasure — without losing a single ship. It remains the only successful capture of a Spanish treasure fleet in history, and it funded the Dutch army's campaigns for eight months.
Cuba's choice to commemorate a Dutch privateer who humiliated Spanish colonial shipping is the genuinely odd detail here.