Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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Piet Hein
Birth name	Piet Pietersen Heyn
Born	(1577-11-25)25 November 1577 Delfshaven, County of Holland
Died	18 June 1629(1629-06-18) (aged 51)
Allegiance	Dutch Republic
Battles/wars	Eighty Years' War Battle in the Bay of Matanzas Dutch-Portuguese War Capture of Salvador Battle in the Bay of San Salvador Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands

Piet Pieterszoon Hein (25 November 1577 – 18 June 1629) was a Dutch admiral and privateer for the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years' War. Hein was the first and the last to capture a large part of a Spanish treasure fleet which transported huge amounts of gold and silver from Spanish America to Spain.^{[citation needed]} The amount of silver taken was so large that it resulted in the rise of the price of silver worldwide and the near bankruptcy of Spain.^[1]