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50 Pesos Piet Heyn
| Issuer | Cuba |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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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 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.