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30 Dollars - Leonard I Skylab
| Issuer | Hutt River |
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| Year | 1979 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | Central depiction of the Skylab space station rendered in fine detail, showing the orbital workshop with its distinctive solar panel arrays and docking adapter. The curved legend HUTT · RIVER · PROVINCE · arcs along the upper periphery, and the denomination THIRTY DOLLARS curves along the lower periphery in large letters. The dates 1973-1979 and the commemorative inscription TALLY HO SKYLAB appear in smaller text across the lower central field. The rim is bordered by fine dentils throughout. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Hutt River Province — the self-declared independent principality carved out of Western Australian farmland by Leonard Casley in 1970 after a dispute with the state government over wheat quotas — issued this piece in response to the Skylab reentry of July 1979. NASA had lost control of the station's orbital decay, and with debris projected to fall across a wide swath of the Southern Hemisphere, much of it did in fact scatter across Western Australia. Casley, characteristically, capitalized on the international attention his remote territory briefly received.