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25 Dollars - Leonard I U.S. F4-G Phantom 'Wild Weasel' Jet Fighter
| Issuer | Hutt River Province |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1974-2020) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a U.S. McDonnell Douglas F-4G 'Wild Weasel' Phantom II jet fighter aircraft in flight, commemorating Operation Desert Storm. The legends 'DESERT STORM V' and 'IN GOD WE TRUST' appear in the field alongside the issuer's monogram 'HR' and the date '1991'. The word 'LIBERTY' is also inscribed in the field, reflecting the patriotic theme of the issue. |
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| Reverse lettering | DESERT STORM V IN GOD WE TRUST LIBERTY HR 1991 |
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Hutt River Province — the self-declared micronation established by Leonard Casley in Western Australia in 1970 following a wheat quota dispute with the state government — issued an extensive run of numismatic curiosities throughout the 1980s and 1990s, most bearing no relationship to any actual circulating economy. This piece belongs firmly to that category: a silver round marketed to collectors under the fiction of legal tender status.
The F-4G Wild Weasel variant was the dedicated Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses platform used extensively by the USAF during the Gulf War, which concluded just months before this 1991 issue — almost certainly the immediate commercial prompt for its release.