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5 Dollars - Leonard I Battle of the North Atlantic
| 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 bears a richly detailed scene commemorating the Battle of the North Atlantic during World War II, depicting stricken warships listing amid wreckage in the foreground, with military aircraft in aerial combat visible against a clouded sky in the background. A ring of small stars borders the right and lower periphery of the field. The legend 'WORLD WAR II' arcs prominently along the upper border. To the right of the central scene, a small tablet bears the inscriptions 'LIBERTY' and 'IN GOD WE TRUST', and the date '1992' appears in the lower exergual area. |
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Hutt River Province, a self-declared micronation in Western Australia founded by Leonard Casley in 1970 following a dispute over wheat production quotas, issued an extensive series of collector coins throughout the 1980s and 1990s. These were never legal tender in any recognized jurisdiction and circulated only as novelty pieces among collectors of exonumia. The X# prefix in the reference confirms this: World Coin's Unusual World Coins catalog, which segregates such issues from mainstream national coinage.
The Battle of the North Atlantic subject is unrelated to any event in Hutt River's history — Casley simply licensed or commissioned thematic designs to generate revenue. A recurring strategy for micronations of this type.