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These bar owners are after some major pirate booty.

SoHo hot spot The Anchor wants to bolster its maritime motif with the largest of three anchors of Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge, an 18th century ship the infamous pirate used to terrorize the high seas.

So the owners of the Spring Street bar are offering to raise as much as $1 million to retrieve the sunken relic — a 12-foot-wide, 3,100-pound iron monster — to show off to customers such as Lady Gaga and Kanye West.

“We would make room for it in the back where people could get near it, but not touch it. We would display it like in a museum,” said co-owner Jason LaGarenne.

The prized item sits in just 25 feet of water about 100 miles off the coast of North Carolina, but it’s buried under tons of sand and debris.

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