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50 Vatu Blackbeard
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Vanuatu |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Weight | 20 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A facing bust portrait of the notorious English pirate Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard, rendered in detailed relief against a background scene depicting a sailing vessel at sea with a tropical beach and palm trees. The denomination and date appear to the right of the portrait within the field, with the subject's full name and epithet inscribed in the legend. |
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Vanuatu's Reserve Bank has issued a series of collector-focused silver pieces under the "Blackbeard" branding, a marketing exercise entirely disconnected from any historical or geographic link between the pirate Edward Teach and the Melanesian archipelago. Teach operated exclusively in the Caribbean and along the North American eastern seaboard, dying at Ocracoke Inlet in 1718 — roughly 14,000 kilometers from Port Vila.