According to legends, the Aztecs delivered the chest to conquistador Hernán Cortés as blood money paid to stem the slaughter he wreaked upon with his armies. But because the gold fueled Cortés' greed, the Heathen Gods placed a curse over the gold: any mortal that removes a piece from the chest shall be damned. The curse could be broken only if the plundered treasure was restored in total and a blood debt repaid. Only Hector Barbossa's crew of the Black Pearl were able to successfully find the treasure, though they would later regret it.

This is an original cursed aztec gold coin from the Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom movie Pirates Of The Caribbean. The central prop in the film, Captain Barbossa, played by Geoffrey Rush, and his crew spend the whole film trying to recover the treasure of the cursed gold coins.

The coin is made of a cast metal which has been plated in gold. It has a characteristic finish as seen on the screen. Altough the cursed treasure consisting of 882 identical pieces of Aztec gold in a stone chest, only around 300 prop coins were made for the production, with many variants: pendants, with two faces (hero), with a repeated skull face (stunts) and with two different level of detail, being this coin a hero version with two faces, a skull face and an aztec symbols face like the ones used by Jack Sparrow to throw inside the chest. All the coin versions can be seen in detail in front of the camera.