20 Dollars - Leonard I BGM-109 Cruise Missile

Hutt River Province, the self-declared micronation established by Leonard Casley in Western Australia in 1970 following a dispute over wheat production quotas, issued a series of extravagant denomination coins throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s aimed squarely at the collector market. This BGM-109 Tomahawk piece appeared during the Gulf War period, when the cruise missile had just achieved global notoriety during Operation Desert Storm in January 1991.

No monetary system backed these issues. The gold plating over bronze kept production costs minimal while allowing face values in the tens and hundreds of dollars.