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25 Dollars - Leonard I Chemical Warfare
| Issuer | Hutt River |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Value | 25 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | A stylized royal crown occupies the upper central field, rendered in high relief. Immediately below the crown, a horizontal decorative band featuring indigenous geometric patterning frames the large numeral '25' at center. The circular legend 'HUTT RIVER PROVINCE' arcs across the upper field, while 'NEW QUEENSLAND MINT' appears on a straight legend beneath the crown, and 'TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS' curves along the lower periphery. |
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| Obverse lettering | HUTT RIVER PROVINCE NEW QUEENSLAND MINT 25 TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS |
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Hutt River Province — the self-declared micronation established by Leonard Casley in Western Australia in 1970 after a dispute with the state government over wheat quotas — issued a series of silver rounds in the early 1990s targeting the thematic collector market. The Chemical Warfare issue appeared the same year coalition forces dismantled Iraqi stockpiles following the Gulf War, a timing almost certainly deliberate.
These pieces were never legal tender in any recognized jurisdiction and traded purely as novelty bullion.