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25 Dollars - Leonard I Women in Armed Forces

Issuer Hutt River Province Mint
Year 1991
Type Local coin
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Obverse lettering HUTT RIVER PROVINCE NEW QUEENSLAND MINT 25 TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS
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Reverse lettering DESERT STORM V IN GOD WE TRUST LIBERTY HR 1991
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Additional information

Hutt River Province, the secessionist micro-nation declared by Leonard Casley in Western Australia in 1970, had no legal standing to issue currency recognized anywhere, yet its mint produced a steady stream of silver rounds throughout the 1980s and 1990s marketed directly to collectors. This piece, nominally honoring women in the armed forces, was one of dozens of topical issues designed to capture thematic collector demand rather than circulate.

The X# prefix in the reference confirms its status outside mainstream numismatic cataloging — World Coin's designation for unofficial and local issues. Hutt River's entire economic model depended on philatelic and numismatic sales.

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