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25 Dollars - Leonard I U.S. AH-1S Hughes 'Cobra' Helicopter
| Issuer | Hutt River Province |
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| Year | 1991 |
| Type | Local coin |
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| Obverse lettering | HUTT RIVER PROVINCE NEW QUEENSLAND MINT 25 TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS |
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| Mintage | 1991 - Proof |
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Hutt River Province declared independence from Australia in 1970 after a wheat quota dispute with the Western Australian government — a secession never recognized by Canberra but never forcibly reversed either. By the 1990s, Leonard Casley, who styled himself Prince Leonard I, was issuing an increasingly eclectic range of numismatic products to sustain the micronation's finances, military hardware series among them.
The AH-1S Cobra was the export and upgraded variant of Bell's original AH-1G, widely deployed through the 1980s by U.S. Army and allied forces. Its appearance on a Hutt River coin has no particular strategic connection to the province — these issues were collector revenue, plain and simple.