100 Dollars Sailing Ships

Features

Issuer	Antigua and Barbuda
Issuing entity	Government of Antigua & Barbuda
Queen	Elizabeth II (1952-2022)
Type	Non-circulating banknotes
Year	1981
Value	100 Dollars 100 XCD = USD 37
Currency	Dollar (1965-date)
Composition	Other (.999 Fine Silver against 23K Gold Foil)
Size	153 × 70 mm
Shape	Rectangular (Bold Relief)
Number	N# 412377

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Commemorative issue

Independence November 1981

Series: The Saga of Treasure Ships and Pirates

Obverse

Prisoner of the Pirates
Captain Thomas Cocklyn and the Bird Galley

Script: Latin

Lettering:
GOVERNMENT OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
23K
THOMAS COCKLYN'S BIRD GALLEY
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS

Designer: Alan D'Estrehan

Reverse

Script: Latin

Lettering:
GOVERNMENT OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
INDEPENDENCE NOVEMBER 1981
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS

Designer: Alan D'Estrehan

Comments

Cocklyn was among the hundreds of pirates who accepted a royal pardon when new Governor Woodes Rogers arrived in the Bahamas in 1718. He soon returned to piracy: in early 1719 near Cape Verde aboard Rising Sun, a group of William Moody's sailors led by Cocklyn attempted a mutiny. Moody marooned Cocklyn and 25 others, denying them shares of treasure. Moody's crew, angry over his treatment of Cocklyn, returned the favor by setting Moody and 12 of his supporters adrift in a small boat. The Rising Sun’s crew elected French pirate Olivier Levasseur as captain. They returned to meet the marooned sailors, who had overpowered a ship on the river and chosen Cocklyn as their leader. William Snelgrave, one of their captives, reported that they “chose Cocklyn for their commander because of his brutality, being determined they said, never again to have a gentleman commander such as Moody was.

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Date			No. printed		VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1981-Nov			20 000							$ 31

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