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.
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.