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5 Dollars - Leonard I Billy Hamilton
| Issuer | Hutt River Province |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Weight | 25.1 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field bears a facing portrait bust of Billy Hamilton, the celebrated 19th-century professional baseball player, depicted in period attire with a knotted cravat at his collar. The legend BILLY HAMILTON curves along the upper periphery. The denomination numeral 5 appears in large relief to the right of the portrait, accompanied by a small mint or issuer logo, while FIVE DOLLARS arcs along the lower periphery. The inscriptions IN GOD WE TRUST and the date 1993 appear to the left of the bust in the field. |
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Hutt River Province declared independence from Western Australia in 1970 after a dispute over wheat production quotas — Leonard Casley, a farmer who styled himself Prince Leonard I, exploited an obscure legal argument rooted in the Treason Act 1495 to assert that the Crown had effectively abandoned its rights over his land. The micronation issued its own currency with surprising consistency for decades, and pieces like this one circulated internally and were sold as souvenirs, creating a strange dual function that makes condition assessment genuinely complicated.
Billy Hamilton was Hutt River's nominal Finance Minister during this period.