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100 Dollars - Leonard I Skylab
| Issuer | Hutt River Province |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Reference(s) | X#12 |
| Obverse description | Right-facing bust of Prince Leonard I of Hutt River Province, depicted with shoulder-length hair, set within a beaded inner border. Two sprigs of wheat flank the portrait on either side. The legend PRINCE LEONARD curves along the upper periphery, and the date 1979 appears in the lower field beneath the effigy. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Hutt River Province declared independence from Western Australia in 1970 after a wheat quota dispute, and Leonard Casley — styling himself Prince Leonard I — spent the following decade building out a full coinage program to reinforce the claim. This 1979 gold issue is part of that effort, struck privately rather than by any national mint, with the Skylab theme capitalizing on the space station's uncontrolled re-entry and partial crash landing on Australian soil in July 1979. The timing was deliberate; few news events that year put "Australia" in international headlines more reliably.