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25 Dollars - Leonard I U.S. F-117 Stealth Jet Fighter
| Issuer | Hutt River Province |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1974-2020) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a finely detailed Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk stealth aircraft in diagonal flight across the central field, commemorating Operation Desert Storm. In the lower portion of the field, a grouping of military vehicles is shown, including a main battle tank, a helicopter, a warship, and a jet aircraft, arranged in horizontal registers to evoke a combined-arms force. A large stylised 'V' for victory motif appears to the left, superimposed with the motto 'IN GOD WE TRUST', while 'LIBERTY' is inscribed to the lower right. Six five-pointed stars punctuate the left and right periphery, with the legend 'DESERT STORM' arcing along the upper rim, the mint mark 'HR' and the date '1991' appearing in the lower exergue. |
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Hutt River Province declared independence from Western Australia in 1970 under Leonard Casley, who styled himself Prince Leonard I. The Australian federal government never recognized the secession, but neither did it forcibly resolve it — a bureaucratic standoff that lasted decades and gave Casley's micronation a peculiar legitimacy in the novelty coin market. By the early 1990s, Hutt River was issuing silver rounds on topical subjects with no connection to the province itself, the F-117 being pure collector bait in the wake of the jet's celebrated debut over Baghdad during Operation Desert Storm earlier that year.