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20 Dollars - Leonard I U.S. B-52 Stratofortress Jet Bomber
| Issuer | Hutt River Province |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Reference(s) | X#93 |
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| Reverse description | A detailed high-relief depiction of a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress strategic bomber in flight occupies the central field, shown in a dynamic three-quarter view banking across a stylised cloudscape with stars flanking both sides. In the lower field, a formation of missiles or bombs is rendered beneath the aircraft. The inscription 'DESERT STORM' arcs prominently along the upper rim, with 'IN GOD WE TRUST' appearing to the left of centre and 'LIBERTY' to the lower right of centre. The date '1991' is inscribed in the exergue along the lower rim. |
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| Reverse lettering | DESERT STORM IN GOD WE TRUST LIBERTY 1991 |
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Hutt River Province — the self-declared micronation carved out of a Western Australian wheat farm by Leonard Casley in 1970 after a dispute with the state government over wheat quotas — issued a sprawling series of gold-plated commemoratives throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, targeting the collector novelty market rather than any circulating economy. This piece, honoring the Boeing B-52, belongs squarely to that era of themed issues produced for foreign buyers with no pretense of domestic circulation.
Hutt River's coinage is catalogued in the Unusual World Coins supplement under the X-number system precisely because no mainstream numismatic authority recognizes the issuing entity as a sovereign state.