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5 Dollars - Leonard I Air Rescue at Sea
| Issuer | Hutt River Province |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Value | 5 Dollars |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a dramatic World War II air-sea rescue scene: a large flying boat aircraft is shown in flight at upper center, with a smaller aircraft visible behind it, set against a clouded sky. In the lower field, survivors are depicted in an inflatable life raft on open water, being approached for rescue. Thirteen five-pointed stars arc around the inner border. The legends WORLD WAR II along the upper rim, LIBERTY and IN GOD WE TRUST to the right field, and the date 1992 in the exergue complete the design. |
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Hutt River Province was a self-declared micronation in Western Australia, established in 1970 when farmer Leonard Casley seceded from Australia in a dispute over wheat production quotas. By the 1990s, the province had developed an ambitious coinage program producing collector-targeted issues with little to no actual circulation. This "Air Rescue at Sea" piece is part of that broader commemorative output — thematic rather than transactional, minted for export to the novelty numismatic market rather than domestic use.
The X# prefix in the Krause catalog designates it as a non-circulating or fantasy issue, which is precisely what Hutt River coinage is.