2000-FM $20 Anne Bonny, DCAM PR70DCAM 认证号41561246, PCGS号783781

2000-FM British Virgin Islands $20 Anne Bonny PR70DCAM { PCGS-5 }. One of the more modest and less bawdy renderings of Anne Bonny elegantly captured in silver as you might expect from the Franklin Mint (see the stylized F-on-top-of-M mintmark on the reverse just to the right of the name banner). Anne was an Irish pirate operating in the Caribbean who had married a sometimes-pirate turned pirate informer. She left her husband joining Calico Jack Rackham and pillaged the seas for 5 years before capture. She was spared the gallows because she was pregnant. Little of her is known after that, dying a few years later. We know her from her romanticized and bawdy exploits recorded in Captain Charles Johnson’s “A General History of the Pyrates.” Nearly 300 years later she appears on coins from Cuba, British Virgin Islands and Burkina Faso based on illustrations in this book.