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5 Dollars - Leonard I Landings on Okinawa
| Issuer | Hutt River Province |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Reference(s) | X#206 |
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| Obverse lettering | HUTT RIVER PROVINCE NEW QUEENSLAND MINT 5 FIVE DOLLARS |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Hutt River Province, the micronation founded by Leonard Casley in Western Australia in 1970 following a dispute over wheat production quotas, issued commemorative coinage throughout the 1980s and 1990s on virtually any subject it could attach its name to. The Battle of Okinawa — the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific Theater, fought April through June 1945 — had no connection whatsoever to Hutt River or its "Prince Leonard I." The pairing is entirely opportunistic, timed to coincide with the late commemorative boom of the early 1990s.
Struck in nickel silver to match the weight and diameter of contemporaneous Crown-sized issues, these pieces were sold directly to collectors at a premium over face value.