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5 Dollars - Leonard I U.S. F-16C 'Fighting Falcon' Jet Fighter
| Issuer | Hutt River |
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| Year | 1991 |
| Type | Local coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Two U.S. F-16C Fighting Falcon jet fighters are depicted in dynamic flight, banking to the right in the upper field against a backdrop of stylized clouds. A ring of thirteen five-pointed stars encircles the inner field along the left and right periphery. In the lower field, an aircraft carrier and naval vessels are rendered in detailed low relief, evoking the Operation Desert Storm theatre. The motto IN GOD WE TRUST appears to the left alongside a bold Roman numeral 'V', LIBERTY is inscribed to the right, and the date 1991 is positioned in the lower exergue. |
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Hutt River — the self-declared micronation in Western Australia founded by Leonard Casley in 1970 after a dispute with the state government over wheat quotas — issued a series of military aviation coins in the early 1990s with no legal tender status beyond its own claimed territory. The F-16C series was part of that run, timed loosely to coincide with global interest in the aircraft following its prominent role in Operation Desert Storm.
Casley, styling himself Prince Leonard I, signed off on coinage as a revenue mechanism rather than a genuine monetary instrument. Collectors of micronation issues track these by the X# prefix in Krause, where they sit alongside similar fantasy issues from Lundy, Sealand, and Nagaland.