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5 Dollars - Leonard I Napoleon Lajoie
| Issuer | Hutt River Province |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1974-2020) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Facing bust portrait of Napoleon Lajoie wearing a baseball cap, rendered in moderate relief at centre. The legend 'NAPOLEAN LAJOIE' arcs along the upper field. To the lower left appears the motto 'IN GOD WE TRUST' with the date '1993' below it. The denomination numeral '5' appears to the right of the portrait accompanied by a small mint mark, and the inscription 'FIVE DOLLARS' curves along the lower rim. |
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Hutt River Province declared unilateral secession from Western Australia in 1970 after a wheat quota dispute threatened Leonard Casley's farm with financial ruin. Casley proclaimed himself Prince Leonard I, and the micronation spent subsequent decades issuing coins, stamps, and passports with genuine seriousness of purpose. This 1993 piece adopts the dynastic name Napoleon Lajoie — a middle name Casley claimed — lending the issue a grandiosity entirely characteristic of Hutt River's self-mythology.
The X# prefix in the Krause reference system flags it as a non-standard issuer. Copper-nickel at this diameter was the workhorse specification for Hutt River's circulating-format commemoratives throughout the 1990s.