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5 Dollars - Leonard I Jake Beckley
| Issuer | Hutt River |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Reference(s) | X#242 |
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| Reverse lettering | JAKE BECKLEY IN GOD WE TRUST 1993 5 FIVE DOLLARS |
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| Mintage | 1993 - Brilliant Uncirculated |
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Hutt River Province, the self-declared micronation in Western Australia that Leonard Casley proclaimed independent from Australia in 1970 over a wheat quota dispute, issued a steady stream of collector-oriented coinage through the 1980s and 1990s with no pretense of genuine circulation. "Jake" Beckley was a 19th-century American baseball Hall of Famer — his appearance on a Western Australian micronation's five-dollar piece reflects the purely speculative, thematic nature of Hutt River's numismatic program, which targeted overseas collector markets rather than any domestic economy.