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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 2131608, member: 71234&quot;]<i>The reverse of each Elemetal Privateer Silver Round features a breathtaking scene which includes: The stern of a pirate ship, rough seawaters, fluttering sails and the moon that peaks out behind some clouds.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>What amazing balderdash. It&#039;s no&nbsp; wonder the sails are fluttering, the ship is headed&nbsp; more or less into the wind, judging by the pennant, the ship is taken aback, as am I by the illiteracy of the person who thinks the moon &#039;peaks&#039; out from the clouds it is peeking out of. And how remarkable for a ship that is so beset in those &#039;seawaters&#039; (ugh) that it is dead upright. Pirates, privateers, or whatever did not use ships with elaborate sterncastles, that look as if they&#039;d sail like pork barrels. They used small, fast ships crammed with men and used treachery and subterfuge to attack, not cannon in pitched battles.</p><p><br /></p><p>A privateer was a privately owned ship sailing with official &#039;Letters of Marque and Reprisal&#039; against a specified enemy country, in effect an auxiliary navel vessel for the country issuing the letters of marque. A corsair was simply another word for pirate.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pirates were ruthless criminals of the worst sort, who could quite legally be hanged on the spot if captured. Why celebrate such scum? By romaticising pirates you agree that murder, rape and pillage are fine and noble if they happened a couple or three hundred years ago, presumably because back then the people were all animals,or immune from loss or suffering.</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, of course, if you want to buy silver you buy the nearest to spot price that you can, not something all dolled up with a bunch of parasites taking a cut that you will be paying for.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>And post-finally, it&#039;s not a &#039;coin&#039;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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