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20 Dollars - Leonard I U.S. F4-G Phantom 'Wild Weasel' Jet Fighter
| Issuer | Hutt River Province Mint |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Value | 20 Dollars |
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| Obverse lettering | HUTT RIVER PROVINCE NEW QUEENSLAND MINT 20 TWENTY DOLLARS |
| Reverse description | Dynamic military aviation scene depicting an F4-G Phantom 'Wild Weasel' jet fighter in flight, rendered in high relief against a polished proof field, with additional aircraft and a naval vessel visible in the background suggesting a Desert Storm combat environment. A ring of eight five-pointed stars encircles the upper field. The legend 'DESERT STORM' arcs prominently along the upper periphery in raised Latin lettering. The inscriptions 'IN GOD WE TRUST' appear to the left field and 'LIBERTY' to the right field, with the date '1991' positioned along the lower exergue. |
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Hutt River Province, the micro-nation founded by Leonard Casley in Western Australia after a 1969 dispute with the state government over wheat quotas, issued a prolific run of novelty coins through the late 1980s and 1990s — largely as a revenue stream rather than genuine circulating currency. This piece commemorates the F-4G, the dedicated suppression-of-enemy-air-defenses variant of the Phantom II, which by 1991 was being phased out of active U.S. service following its final operational deployment in the Gulf War.
The timing is not coincidental. Desert Storm gave the aging F-4G an unlikely final moment of relevance.