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5 Dollars - Leonard I Henry Chadwick, Essai
| Issuer | Hutt River |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Technique | Proof |
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| Obverse description | Essai die trial obverse featuring a plain polished field with no effigy or legend struck, bearing only the engraver's incuse signature 'HAL REED' inscribed across the centre of the flan in flowing script. Below the signature appears a partial numeral or notation in the lower field. The smooth, mirror-like surface is characteristic of a proof essai planchet, with the raised rim providing the only structural border element. |
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| Obverse lettering | PRINCIPALITY OF HUTT RIVER PRINCE LEONARD I HAL REED |
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Hutt River Province, the secessionist micro-nation declared by Leonard Casley in Western Australia in 1970, issued coins sporadically as deliberate assertions of sovereign status rather than for any practical monetary purpose. This 1992 essai — a trial strike never released for general circulation — was produced under the name Leonard I Henry Chadwick, the regnal style Casley adopted after unilaterally proclaiming himself prince in 1972. Essais of this province are scarce simply because mintages were tiny and documentation inconsistent; Hutt River never maintained the kind of mint records a national authority would.