Catalog
5 Cents - Leonard I
| Issuer | Hutt River |
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| Year | 1976-1978 |
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| Value | 5 Cents (0.05) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | PRINCE LEONARD 1976 |
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| Additional information |
Hutt River Province declared secession from Western Australia in 1970 after a dispute over wheat production quotas — Leonard Casley, a farmer who became "Prince Leonard I," exploited an obscure constitutional provision and never faced successful legal challenge to his claim. These aluminium pieces were issued as functioning provincial currency, part of a broader effort to assert the trappings of statehood, though Australia never recognized them as legal tender.