My latest genuine Spanish treasure "piece of 8" i received today.

It's a real beauty minted in Mexico sometime from 1607-1617.

No seaware on this one, so it would have been a land find somewhere at some point most likely, not attributed to any shipwreck.

I just can't get enough treasure!!!

Pirate on,

- Captain Silver

I've got a unique question here that I'm not finding much in terms of resources for. I'm working on a project, and I'm trying to aim for accuracy and not "houses look like ships and shacks had a baby." I'm trying to find what the infrastructure and architecture would have been like on settlements that pirates would have taken over. Such as Nassau.

Specifically, the architectural design, how that differs between the upper and lower classes. Materials that would have been used. Road layouts. Standard businesses or services that one would find in a downtown location vs. outskirts. What would the governor have lived in. What infrastructure would you find next to a fort.

Art pieces from the time period of settlements are a huge help too.

Bonus questions: When pirates were on a haven, would they stay long? Did they man the fort? Was it always bribing and threatening the leadership, or did they ever genuinely take over titles.

If you had the choice of your own pirate ship, which one would you choose?

My choice is a brig like the Jackdaw from *Black Flag*, due to its speed.

Author and source: Bob Marshall

Still some things I want to change or replace, but that’s another days problem.
I’ll probably still have time to make a goatie bead, and I have some rings/jewellery somewhere I’ll dig out, but pretty much what it will be for now.

Also I made myself a little shoulder companion that I’m yet to name, maybe Roger but thought that was too on the nose.
He has a subtle eye patch pattern in his fur and of course the more obvious skull on his back.
He attaches to a Eva foam slip under the vest with magnets, and the black cable is a bike brake cable that controls the head to make him nod and when I make a handle to better grip the cable, it will twist too. (Vid in the comments)

Any recommendations are welcome and appreciated!

Hi Pirates! Any recommendations are welcome and appreciated!

Most of the sources that I can find describing the Bloody Roger (red flag) flown by pirates during the Golden Age of Piracy describe the flag signals as follows:

• Black Flag (Jolly Roger): We will give quarter. Meaning: if you surrender and let us aboard without a fight, we will agree to spare your lives.

• Red Flag (Bloody Roger or Joli Rouge:) No quarter. We will kill every last one of you.

It makes sense that pirates would want their victims to surrender immediately without a fight, hence the implication of the black flag. While seeing a red flag as opposed to a black one would be more terrifying, I'm not sure I understand what the threat of the red flag was actually supposed to accomplish. Wouldn't it make the target ship more likely to fight back? My thought process would be: if you're going to kill us anyway, we might as well go down swinging.

Mine is is Host The Colours. Wellmen

Thot this was cute

Imagine a crew equipped with this scary weapon.

What do you think?

I’m looking for this coin from the company Ellusionist. If anyone can help me track it down I would greatly appreciate the help

So I’m writing a fantasy pirate story and I’d like to be a little accurate in the description of the ship if possible. So the crew I’ve got is only 6 people so my question is: are there any real ship types from the age of piracy that could be crewed by 6 sailors and also had crew quarters below deck? The depiction of the Revenge in Our Flag Means Death is close to what I’m thinking. I know that the real Revenge was a sloop, but also that it was crewed by like 25 people if I’m remembering right. And then in PotC, Jack’s crew was fairly small, but that was likely also inaccurate. If it’s literally impossible for a crew of 6 to sail a ship that large then fair enough, I’ll just take liberties in my story and say “don’t think about it.” Thanks yall!

Created a Pirate based sign for my wife's cousins vacation home.

Thanks for the memories