25 Dollars - Leonard I U.S. M-1198 165 mm Towed Howitzer

Hutt River Province declared independence from Australia in 1970 after a wheat quota dispute with the Western Australian government pushed farmer Leonard Casley to invoke an obscure provision of the Magna Carta. By 1991, the micronation had been issuing its own coinage for years — not as circulating currency, but as a deliberate revenue stream targeting collector markets. This piece commemorates the M-198 155mm towed howitzer, a standard NATO artillery piece adopted by the U.S. Army in the late 1970s to replace the aging M-114.

The reference number X#151 places it firmly in Krause's catalog of non-standard world issues — coins from entities whose sovereignty no recognized state has ever acknowledged.