25 Dollars - Leonard I USS Missouri Battleship

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.