20 Dollars - Leonard I Los Angeles Games

Hutt River is a micronation — formally the Province of Hutt River — established in Western Australia in 1970 when wheat farmer Leonard Casley declared secession from Australia over a dispute about wheat production quotas. It issued coins, stamps, and passports for decades, none of which held legal tender status anywhere with international recognition. This piece, nominally commemorating the 1984 Los Angeles Games a full decade after the fact, is the kind of retroactive "issue" that characterized the micronation novelty coin trade of the 1990s. Gold-plated bronze marketed as proof strikes were a staple of that market.