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# 433544

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Commemorative issue

Independence November 1981

Series: The Saga of Treasure Ships and Pirates

Obverse

Pirates and their Protectors
Captain Thomas Tew and the Amity

Script: Latin

Lettering:
GOVERNMENT OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
23K
THOMAS TEW'S AMITY
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

In September 1695, a 25-ship Mughal convoy approached the Mandab Strait, slipping past the pirates during the night. Tew and his fellow pirates pursued. The Amity attacked one of the Mughal ships, believed to be the Fateh Muhammed. Tew was killed in this battle, reportedly disemboweled by a cannon shot. Demoralized, his crew surrendered immediately, though they were freed later when Avery's Fancy captured the Fateh Muhammed. The Amity returned to Baldridge's settlement under John Ireland's command to refit; they later swapped the Amity for Richard Glover's Charming Mary and plundered ships in the Indian Ocean under captain Richard Bobbington.

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Date			No. printed		VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1981-Nov			20 000							$ 27

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