Golden Hind Galleon of Sir Francis Drake 1 Dollar East Caribbean

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Golden Hind Galleon of Sir Francis Drake 1 Dollar East Caribbean States Authentic Coin Charm for Jewelry and Craft Making (CONDITION: VERY FINE) Obverse: Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II to the right Lettering: QUEEN ELIZABETH THE SECOND Reverse: The "Golden Hind", ship of Sir Francis Drake (1542-1596), corsair and Engli
Golden Hind Galleon of Sir Francis Drake 1 Dollar East Caribbean States Authentic Coin Charm for Jewelry and Craft Making (CONDITION: VERY FINE) Obverse: Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II to the right Lettering: QUEEN ELIZABETH THE SECOND Reverse: The Golden Hind, ship of Sir Francis Drake (1542-1596), corsair and English explorer Lettering: EAST CARIBBEAN STATES ONE DOLLAR Edge: Reeded Features Issuer Eastern Caribbean States Queen Elizabeth II (1952-date) Type Standard circulation coin Years 1981-1986 Value 1 Dollar 1 XCD = USD 0.37 Currency Dollar (1965-date) Composition Aluminium-bronze Weight 8.2 g Diameter 26.9 mm Thickness 2 mm Shape Round Technique Milled Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑ Number N# 5942 References KM# 15 Wikipedia: Golden Hind was a galleon captained by Francis Drake in his circumnavigation of the world between 1577 and 1580. She was originally known as Pelican, but Drake renamed her mid-voyage in 1578, in honour of his patron, Sir Christopher Hatton, whose crest was a golden hind (a female red deer). Hatton was one of the principal sponsors of Drake's world voyage. A full-sized, seaworthy reconstruction exists in London, on the south bank of the Thames. Queen Elizabeth I partly sponsored Sir Francis Drake as the leader of an expedition intended to pass around South America through the Strait of Magellan and to explore the coast that lay beyond. The queen's support was advantageous; Drake had official approval to benefit himself and the queen, as well as to cause the maximum damage to the Spaniards. This eventually culminated in the Anglo–Spanish War. Before setting sail, Drake met the queen face-to-face for the first time and she said to him, We would gladly be revenged on the King of Spain for divers injuries that we have received. The explicit object was to find out places meet to have traffic. Drake, however, acted as a privateer, with unofficial support from Elizabeth. Golden Hind is described as a mid-16th-century warship during the transition from the carrack to the galleon, and weighed about 120 tons. He first named his flagship Pelican, but renamed her Golden Hind on 20 August 1578 to honour his patron, Sir Christopher Hatton, whose family crest was a golden hind. He set sail in December 1577 with five small ships, manned by 164 men, and reached the Brazilian coast in early 1578. On 1 March 1579, now in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Ecuador, Golden Hind challenged and captured the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de la Concepción. This galleon had the largest treasure captured to that date: over 360,000 pesos (equivalent to around £480m in 2017). The treasure took six days to transship and included 26 tons of silver, half a ton of gold, porcelain, jewellery, coins, and jewels. On 26 September 1580, Francis Drake sailed his ship into Plymouth Harbour with 56 of the original crew of 80 left aboard. The ship was unloaded at Saltash Castle nearby, where the treasure offloading was supervised by the Queen's guards.[9] The final treasure also included six tons of cloves from the Spice Islands, at the time worth their weight in gold.[10] Elizabeth herself went aboard Golden Hind, which was then permanently at Deptford on the south bank of the Thames, where she had requested it be placed on permanent display as the first 'museum ship'. There, she shrewdly asked the French ambassador to bestow a knighthood on Drake. Over half of the proceeds went to the crown - her share of the treasure came to at least £160,000: enough to pay off her entire government debt and still have £40,000 left over to invest in a new trading company for the Levant. Her return, and that of other investors, was more than £47 for every £1 invested, or 4,700%. After Drake's circumnavigation, Golden Hind was maintained for public exhibition at the dockyard at Deptford, London. The ship remained there from 1580 to around 1650, 45 years after Elizabeth had died, before the ship eventually rotted away and was broken up. In 1668, the keeper of the stores at Deptford, John Davies of Camberwell, had the best remaining timber of Golden Hind made into a chair which was presented to the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford, where it remains (with a replica in the Great Hall, Buckland Abbey, Devon, Drake's home and now maintained by the National Trust). A table, known as the cupboard, in the Middle Temple Hall, London is also reputed to have been made from the wood of Golden Hind. Upon the cupboard is placed the roll of members of Middle Temple, which new members sign when they are called to the Bar. The ship's lantern was hung in the vestibule of Middle Temple Hall, but was destroyed during the Second World War. ************* Wikipedia: The Eastern Caribbean dollar (symbol: $; code: XCD) is the currency of all seven full members and one associate member of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). The successor to the British West Indies dollar, it has existed since 1965, and it is normally abbreviated with the dollar sign $ or, alternatively, EC$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies. The EC$ is subdivided into 100 cents. It has been pegged to the United States dollar since 7 July 1976, at the exchange rate of US$1 = EC$2.70. Six of the states using the EC$ are independent states: Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The other two, Anguilla and Montserrat, are British Overseas Territories. These states are all members of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union.