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5 Dollars - Leonard I Harry Wright, Essai

Issuer Hutt River
Year 1992
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Technique Milled
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Reverse script Latin
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Edge Plain
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Hutt River Province — the micronation declared by wheat farmer Leonard Casley in Western Australia in 1970 after a dispute with the state government over wheat quotas — issued its own coinage as a matter of sovereign assertion rather than practical commerce. By 1992, Casley had styled himself Prince Leonard I, and essai pieces like this one were produced as proofs of concept and sold directly to collectors, never intended for any functional circulation. The province was formally dissolved in 2020 when Leonard's son Graeme wound it down, partly due to accumulated tax debts to the Australian government.

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