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5 Dollars - Leonard I Shoeless Joe Jackson
| Issuer | Hutt River |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Dynamic baseball scene depicting multiple players in action within the central field, including a batter swinging a bat in the foreground and additional fielding figures in the middle and background. A grandstand and spectators are rendered in low relief along the upper portion of the design. The circumferential legend reads FATHERS OF BASEBALL at the top and HUTT RIVER PROVINCE at the bottom, separated by raised dots, with a Roman numeral V incorporated into the upper legend. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Hutt River — officially the Province of Hutt River — was a micronation in Western Australia that declared independence from Australia in 1970, primarily over a wheat quota dispute. Leonard Casley, who styled himself Prince Leonard I, issued coins intermittently through the 1980s and 1990s as a mix of sovereignty assertion and tourist revenue. This piece honoring Shoeless Joe Jackson reflects a broader trend in Hutt River coinage: licensing recognizable figures with no particular connection to the issuer, aimed squarely at the collector market rather than any pretense of circulation.