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100 Dollars - Leonard I Henry Chadwick
| Issuer | Hutt River Province |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Composition | Gold |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central design depicts a tilted rectangular book or manual inscribed CHADWICKS at the top and MANUAL at the bottom, with a decorative vignette of a baseball player in action visible on its cover. The legend FATHER OF BASEBALL arcs along the upper periphery in bold raised lettering. HENRY CHADWICK curves along the lower periphery. The birth and death years 1824 and 1908 appear flanking the central motif in the lower field, each accompanied by a small rosette ornament. |
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Hutt River Province — formally the Province of Hutt River — was an unrecognized micronation in Western Australia that seceded from the Commonwealth in 1970 under Leonard Casley, who later styled himself Prince Leonard I. These coins were struck as legal tender within the province's own declared jurisdiction and sold primarily to collectors, functioning more as revenue instruments than circulating currency. The X# prefix in the catalog reference confirms its classification outside sovereign issues.
Henry Chadwick was a 19th-century English sporting journalist, best remembered as the father of baseball's box score.