Pinchpenny Van Dukke was an anthropomorphic duck.
Description[]
An ancestor and 16th-century-counterpart of Scrooge McDuck, Pinchpenny Van Dukke was the incredibly wealthy, and tough-in-business, uncle of notorious pirate Ringtail Van Dukke. When Ringtail tried to forsake piracy and "go straight", Pinchpenny was the only one who'd give him a job, hiring him to buy a cargo of spices in the Isles for him, and entrusting him with a chest of gold for the purpose. After Ringtail lost the cargo in a shipwreck (though the Van Biegel Lads he had foolishly hired as crew also had a part to play in the matter), he swore not to return to land until he could give Pinchpenny back his money; it was only in 1992, as a ghost, that Ringtail was able to posthumously fulfill his oath by bringing back the chest of gold to Pinchpenny's modern-day "heir" Scrooge McDuck (who looked so much like Pinchpenny that Ringtail mistook him for his uncle altogether).
Behind the scenes[]
Pinchpenny Van Dukke appears in the 1992 story The Last Voyage of Ringtail Van Dukke.