Heheh. I can see how the minister would think Jack was drunk regardless of whether or not he'd had any.
Wonderful presentation of Jack's speech patterns. Nice, tight ending.
There wouldn't be American coins at this point, though, not of any value. Even if POTC does turn out to be set after 1776, we didn't get around to our coinage until a bit later. The "Continental" was paper money, and prone to terrible inflation.