2019Queen Anne's Revenge
- Single vessel
- Skull cloud
- Blackbeard's flag
The ship cuts through rough seas while a skull-shaped cloud and Blackbeard's flag frame the opening composition.
About the series
Six releases. Six maritime subjects.
Six standard 1 oz .9999 silver BU releases are documented from 2019 through 2024. Each reverse pairs a pirate with a ship or fleet, while Tuvalu provides the legal-tender jurisdiction and The Perth Mint produced the coins.
The Perth Mint produced the coins for Tuvalu. Product descriptions explain what each reverse depicts; museum and historical references separately frame the people, ships and points of uncertainty.
Series highlights
- 6 documented releases, 2019–2024
- Each reverse pairs a pirate with a ship or fleet
- Obverse and reverse views for all 6 years
- Coin narrative, history and later legend are kept distinct
Release voyage
Pirates, ships and fleets across six releases
The sequence follows the documented standard one-ounce coins through 2024. It has no final marker because an official end-of-series statement was not located.
●Documented standard release
All documented releases
Explore every pirate and vessel
Each card opens the standard one-ounce coin, its pirate and vessel subject, and the historical boundary around that story.
Showing all 6 annual issues.
2024 · The Kingston
John ‘Calico Jack’ Rackham and Anne Bonny · .9999 · TVD $1- Maximum
- 15,000
2023 · The Fancy
Henry Every · .9999 · TVD $1- Maximum
- 15,000
2022 · Rising Sun
William Moody · .9999 · TVD $1- Maximum
- 15,000
2021 · Red Flag Fleet
Ching Shih · .9999 · TVD $1- Maximum
- 15,000
2020 · Royal Fortune
Bartholomew Roberts (Black Bart) · .9999 · TVD $1- Maximum
- 15,000
2019 · Queen Anne's Revenge
Edward Teach (Blackbeard) · .9999 · TVD $1- Maximum
- 15,000
No annual issue matches that filter.
Design evolution
A maritime chronology in silver
Across the six documented releases, the series moves between named vessels, a fleet composition and maritime action while returning to skull imagery, pirate identifiers and BLACK FLAG inscriptions as visual anchors.
20192020Royal Fortune
- Ship under sail
- Looming skull
- Black Bart's flag
Royal Fortune fills the foreground, with the enlarged skull and flag creating a more tightly layered scene.
2021Red Flag Fleet
- Fleet composition
- Breaking-wave skull
- Ching Shih
The only fleet-centred release replaces a single named vessel with layered ships and a skull suggested by breaking water.
2022Rising Sun
- Maritime action
- Burning vessel
- Smoke skull
Rising Sun advances past a burning vessel in the series' most action-dense composition, with smoke forming the skull.
2023The Fancy
- Treasure on deck
- Open horizon
- Horizon skull
Treasure chests anchor The Fancy in the lower field while the skull motif recedes toward an open horizon.
2024The Kingston
- Tropical coast
- Pirate flag
- Horizon skull
The Kingston opens the scene toward a tropical coast while retaining the pirate flag and distant skull as recurring anchors.
Designs & artists
A consistent hand across the series
Numismatic catalog references attribute all six documented reverses to Lucas Bowers. A matching designer credit from The Perth Mint has not been located, so the attribution remains qualified.
Lucas Bowers
Reverse designer
Obverse evolution
Royal portraits across the series
2019–2022Ian Rank-Broadley · Queen Elizabeth II
The first four releases use his effigy of Queen Elizabeth II.
2023Ian Rank-Broadley · Memorial obverse
The fifth release adds the reign dates 1952–2022.
2024Jody Clark · King Charles III
The sixth release introduces Jody Clark's effigy of King Charles III.
Mintage by release
Maximum limits across six releases
Each product record publishes a 15,000 maximum. No mint-level final declared total was located, so every outlined bar remains a production limit rather than a final mintage.
Maximum only · final unavailable
- 201915,000
- 202015,000
- 202115,000
- 202215,000
- 202315,000
- 202415,000
Historical record · 1695
The Fancy and a worldwide pursuit
Fifth Black Flag release and the first memorial-obverse issue.
Henry Every's seizure of the Mughal ship Ganj-i-Sawai led to an international pursuit. His final fate remains uncertain, despite later stories of a wealthy escape.
Explore The FancySeries coverage
The documented standard one-ounce releases
This section covers only the standard 1 oz .9999 silver Brilliant Uncirculated coin for each documented Black Flag release. Antiqued, 5 oz, gold, proof, coloured, graded, MintDirect and presentation-format products remain separate objects.
- Releases
- 6
- Coin-face images
- 12
- Dated sequence
- 2019–2024
Selected sources
- Explaining Tuvalu's role in modern coinsThe Perth Mint · 2026-08-14
- Currency ActGovernment of Tuvalu · 2026-08-14
- The Perth Mint Black Flag SeriesAPMEX · 2026-08-14
- The Perth Mint Black Flag Series catalogAPMEX · 2026-08-14
- 2019 Tuvalu 1 oz Silver Black Flag — Queen Anne's RevengeAPMEX · 2026-08-14
- 2020 Tuvalu 1 oz Silver Black Flag — The Royal FortuneAPMEX · 2026-08-14
- 2021 Tuvalu 1 oz Silver Black Flag — The Red Flag FleetAPMEX · 2026-08-14
- 2022 Tuvalu 1 oz Silver Black Flag — The Rising SunAPMEX · 2026-08-14
- 2023 Tuvalu 1 oz Silver Black Flag — The Fancy BUAPMEX · 2026-08-14
- 2024 Tuvalu 1 oz Silver Black Flag — The Kingston BUAPMEX · 2026-08-14
- 1 Dollar — Black Flag: FancyNumista · 2026-08-14
- First worldwide manhunt for a pirateGuinness World Records · 2026-08-14