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25 Dollars - Leonard I U.S. MGM-52 Lance Guided Missile
| Issuer | Hutt River Province |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Value | 25 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | A stylized royal crown occupies the upper portion of the field, rendered in high relief. Below the crown, the legend NEW QUEENSLAND MINT appears horizontally across a decorative horizontal band featuring indigenous geometric patterns in low relief, at the center of which the numeral 25 is prominently displayed. The circular legend HUTT RIVER PROVINCE arcs along the upper periphery, while TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS curves along the lower rim, all inscriptions in Latin lettering. |
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| Obverse lettering | HUTT RIVER PROVINCE NEW QUEENSLAND MINT 25 TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS |
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Hutt River Province — the micronation founded by Leonard Casley in Western Australia in 1970 after a dispute with the state government over wheat production quotas — issued a steady stream of numismatic pieces throughout the 1980s and 1990s, most sold directly to collectors rather than circulated. The MGM-52 Lance was a U.S. Army tactical ballistic missile deployed from 1972 and retired in 1992, making this issue a curious choice for an Australian micronation with no military and no plausible connection to American weapons procurement.
The pairing of a sovereign pretender's portrait coinage with Cold War missile hardware places this firmly in the era's wider trend of thematic collector silver — issued more to generate revenue than to mark any genuine political or historical relationship.