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5 Dollars - Leonard I Adrian 'Cap' Anson
| Issuer | Hutt River |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Value | 5 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts a dynamic baseball scene in high relief, featuring multiple players in period uniforms engaged in active play — a batter at the plate, a fielder in mid-throw, and a sliding baserunner — with grandstand crowds and flagpoles visible in the background. The scene evokes the late nineteenth-century origins of professional baseball. The legend FATHERS OF BASEBALL II arcs along the upper periphery, while HUTT RIVER PROVINCE curves along the lower periphery, both in raised Latin lettering. The composition is framed by a plain raised rim. |
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| Edge | Milled |
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Hutt River Province — formally the Province of Hutt River — was a self-declared micronation in Western Australia, established in 1970 when wheat farmer Leonard Casley seceded from Australia in a dispute over wheat production quotas. By the 1990s it was issuing a range of collector coins under royal prerogative, many commemorating figures with no discernible connection to the province itself.
Cap Anson was a 19th-century American baseball player — one of the first inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939, and deeply controversial for his role in enforcing racial segregation in professional baseball. Why Hutt River chose him for a 1993 five-dollar issue remains unexplained in any known numismatic record.