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25 Dollars - Leonard I USS Missouri Battleship
| Issuer | Hutt River |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts the USS Missouri battleship (BB-63) in profile sailing at sea, commemorating Operation Desert Storm. The legend 'DESERT STORM' appears prominently, accompanied by the motto 'IN GOD WE TRUST' and the word 'LIBERTY', with the issuer initials 'HR' and the date '1991' also present in the field. |
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| Reverse lettering | DESERT STORM V IN GOD WE TRUST LIBERTY HR 1991 |
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Hutt River Province, the micronation declared by Leonard Casley in 1970 after a dispute with the Western Australian government over wheat quotas, issued a prolific run of silver coins through the late 1980s and early 1990s — most marketed directly to collectors with no pretense of circulation. This piece commemorates the USS Missouri, the Iowa-class battleship on whose deck Japan signed the instrument of surrender in September 1945, and which had been recommissioned in 1986 after a Reagan-era naval expansion that briefly brought the battleship back into active service.