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5 Dollars - Leonard I Harry Wright
| Issuer | Hutt River Province |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Engraver(s) | Hal Reed |
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| Obverse description | Bearded male bust facing three-quarters right, depicting Harry Wright, occupying the central field of the obverse. The peripheral legend reads HUTT RIVER PROVINCE along the upper arc and FIVE DOLLARS along the lower arc. The motto IN GOD WE TRUST appears to the left of the bust, and the date 1992 is inscribed to the right, accompanied by a small rose privy mark below. The engraver's initials HR are visible at the base of the truncation. |
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| Obverse lettering | THE HUTT RIVER PROVINCE FIVE DOLLARS In God we trust 1992 |
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Hutt River Province was a self-declared micronation in Western Australia, established in 1970 when wheat farmer Leonard Casley seceded from Australia in a dispute over wheat production quotas. The province issued its own currency, passports, and stamps for decades, with Casley styling himself Prince Leonard I. These coins circulated — loosely speaking — primarily as souvenirs sold to tourists who made the drive out to the property, generating revenue that helped sustain the secession's peculiar economics. Hutt River finally dissolved in 2020 when Leonard's son Graeme closed the province, partly due to tax debts accumulated over fifty years.