Catalog
100 Dollars - Leonard I
| Issuer | Principality of Hutt River |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Reference(s) | X#6 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The central field of the reverse displays a figure of Justice standing facing, arms outstretched, holding a balance scale in each hand, set within a circular inner border. The design is rendered in detailed relief against a mirror-polished proof field. The circumferential legend ·HUTT·RIVER·PROVINCE· is inscribed along the upper portion of the outer ring in raised Latin letters separated by midpoints, while ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS appears along the lower portion. A beaded border frames the outer edge. |
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The Principality of Hutt River was proclaimed by Leonard Casley in 1970 after a dispute with the Western Australian government over wheat production quotas that threatened to bankrupt his farm. Casley exploited an obscure provision of imperial law — never successfully tested in court — to claim secession, and the Australian government's failure to formally challenge it in time left the declaration in a legal grey zone it never fully escaped.
This 1976 gold issue came early in Hutt River's numismatic program, which became the micronation's primary revenue stream within a few years of its founding.