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5 Dollars - Leonard I Battle of the Philippine Sea
| Issuer | Hutt River Province |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1974-2020) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a dynamic World War II naval aviation scene commemorating the Battle of the Philippine Sea, showing deck crew directing fighter aircraft on a carrier flight deck in the foreground, with additional aircraft and a warship visible in the background field. A border of eight six-pointed stars encircles the central composition along the inner rim. The legend WORLD WAR II arcs across the upper periphery. In the lower left field, a V-for-Victory device incorporates the inscriptions IN GOD WE TRUST, while LIBERTY and the date 1992 appear along the lower exergue. |
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Hutt River Province — the micronation unilaterally declared by wheat farmer Leonard Casley in 1970 after a dispute with the Western Australian government over wheat production quotas — issued a sprawling series of commemorative coins throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, most produced by private mints and carrying no legal tender status outside the Province's own claims. This piece marks the Battle of the Philippine Sea of June 1944, the largest carrier battle in history, in which U.S. forces destroyed three Japanese carriers and roughly 600 aircraft in what pilots called the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot."
The Casley family styled Leonard as a prince from 1972 onward.