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25 Dollars - Leonard I George Washington

Issuer Hutt River Province
Year 1989
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Value 25 Dollars
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Reverse lettering HUTT RIVER PROVINCE TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS
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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.