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100 Dollars - Leonard I Statue of Liberty
| Issuer | Hutt River Province |
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| Year | 1986 |
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| Value | 100 Dollars |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | STATUE OF LIBERTY CENTENNIAL 1986 |
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Hutt River Province declared independence from Australia in 1970 after a wheat quota dispute pushed farmer Leonard Casley to invoke an obscure provision of imperial law — a claim Canberra never formally recognised but also never forcefully reversed. By 1986, the micro-nation had been issuing its own coinage for over a decade, targeting the novelty collector market rather than any functioning local economy.
The Statue of Liberty subject was almost certainly chosen to ride the wave of centennial commemoratives flooding the market that year, when mints worldwide produced Liberty-themed issues in quantity.