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5 Dollars - Leonard I Charley Radbourne
| 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 an aerial view of a baseball diamond in full play, with multiple player figures shown at their respective positions across the infield and outfield. A grandstand with spectators is rendered along the left margin, conveying the atmosphere of a live game. The legend FATHERS OF BASEBALL V curves along the upper periphery in Latin script, while HUTT RIVER PROVINCE arcs along the lower periphery, both separated by a raised border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Hutt River Province — officially the Province of Hutt River — was a micronation in Western Australia founded in 1970 when farmer Leonard Casley seceded from Australia in a dispute over wheat production quotas. Casley styled himself Prince Leonard I and issued coins, stamps, and passports for decades, operating with remarkable bureaucratic seriousness. This piece honors Charley Radbourne, the 19th-century American pitcher known for winning 59 games in the 1884 season for the Providence Grays — his connection to an Australian micronation's coinage being, to put it plainly, entirely unexplained by the historical record.