Catalog
100 Dollars - Leonard I Abner Doubleday
| Issuer | Hutt River Province |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Reference(s) | X#221 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central device depicts two baseball players in period attire: a crouching catcher in the foreground and a standing batter in the background, rendered in relief against a plain field. Decorative dots flank the birth and death years 1819 and 1893, placed respectively to the left and right of the figures. The legend FATHER OF BASEBALL arcs along the upper periphery, while ABNER DOUBLEDAY curves along the lower border, all within a beaded inner circle. |
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Hutt River Province declared secession from Western Australia in 1970 under Leonard Casley, who styled himself Prince Leonard I. The micronation's legal standing was never recognized by the Australian government, but its coins — issued with full numismatic intent — found a ready collector market. The Abner Doubleday attribution here is curious: Doubleday is popularly credited with inventing baseball, a claim largely debunked by historians, which makes his appearance on a coin from an unrecognized sovereign entity a fitting pairing of disputed myths.