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5 Dollars - Leonard I AWACS
| Issuer | Hutt River |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | A Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) aircraft is depicted in dynamic three-quarter view dominating the central and upper field, its distinctive rotodome clearly rendered above the fuselage. Below, a naval battle group comprising aircraft carriers and escort vessels is shown in stylized relief against a horizon line. A bold 'V' for victory device overlaps the legend 'IN GOD WE TRUST' in the left field, with 'LIBERTY' inscribed to the right, a ring of five-pointed stars arcing along the upper border beneath the legend 'DESERT STORM', and the date '1991' in the lower exergue. |
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| Mintage | 1991 - - 1991 - Proof - |
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Hutt River Province — formally the Province of Hutt River — was a self-declared micronation in Western Australia whose founder, Leonard Casley, unilaterally seceded from Australia in 1970 over a wheat quota dispute. By the early 1990s the province was issuing an expanding range of collector coins, this AWACS piece among them. The coins had no meaningful circulation economy; they were sold directly to collectors and curiosity-seekers visiting the property or through mail order.
The AWACS subject reflects Casley's habit of issuing coins tied to contemporary military and aerospace themes, apparently driven by collector market demand rather than any particular connection to the subject matter.