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25 Dollars - Leonard I George Washington
| Issuer | Hutt River Province |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Value | 25 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Three-quarter bust of George Washington facing right, depicted in 18th-century attire with ruffled jabot and buttoned coat, his right hand raised and his left hand resting upon an open book, evoking the scene of his inaugural oath of office. Washington's facsimile signature appears in the field to the right of his effigy. The legend OATH BICENTENNIAL is inscribed along the upper periphery, flanked by the date 1989, with the issuer's abbreviation HR also present. A fine dentilated border frames the entire design. |
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| Obverse lettering | OATH BICENTENNIAL 1989 HR |
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Hutt River Province was a self-declared micronation in Western Australia established in 1970 by Leonard Casley, a wheat farmer who seceded from Australia in a dispute over wheat production quotas. It issued its own stamps, passports, and coinage — none of which carried legal tender status anywhere with general recognition, but the numismatic market absorbed them readily as novelty bullion pieces through the 1980s and into the 1990s.
The George Washington subject on a Hutt River coin is characteristically eccentric — Casley cultivated foreign dignitaries and historical iconography with no particular logic beyond marketing appeal to overseas collectors.