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# 433551

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Commemorative issue

Independence November 1981

Series: The Saga of Treasure Ships and Pirates

Obverse

The first plundering of the new world gold
Captain Jean Fleury and the Dieppe

Script: Latin

Lettering:
GOVERNMENT OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
23K
JEAN FLEURY CAPTURES TREASURE SHIPS OF CORTEZ
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

Jean Fleury (or Florin) (died 1527) was a French naval officer and privateer. He is best known for the capture of two out of the three Spanish galleons carrying the Aztec treasure of Hernán Cortés from Mexico to Spain and one ship from Santo Domingo in 1522. This was one of the earliest recorded acts of piracy against the new Spanish Empire and encouraged the French Corsairs, Dutch Sea Beggars and English Sea Dogs to begin attacking shipping and settlements in the Spanish Main during the next several decades

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

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