Catalog
20 Cents - Leonard I
| Issuer | Hutt River |
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| Year | 1976-1978 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of Prince Leonard I facing left, his hair swept back, flanked on either side by a single laurel branch rising from the lower field. The legend PRINCE LEONARD arcs along the upper periphery within a beaded border, while the date 1976 appears in the exergue between the two laurel sprigs. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Hutt River Province was a farming secession — Leonard Casley declared independence from Western Australia in 1970 after a dispute over wheat quotas, and the Commonwealth never formally recognised the claim but also never forcibly ended it. These brass pieces circulated internally and were sold to tourists; the province operated for fifty years before Casley's son dissolved it in 2020 partly due to tax debts accumulated during his father's reign.