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5 Dollars - Leonard I U.S. Jeep
| Issuer | Hutt River Province |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | A detailed military scene occupies the central field, depicting a U.S. Army Jeep manned by armed soldiers, with additional infantry figures standing to the right, one bearing a flagpole. A large banner inscribed DESERT STORM billows prominently above the vehicle in the upper field. A military helicopter is visible in the lower left field background, with birds rendered in the upper right field. The date 1991 appears in the lower exergue, flanked by the mint mark HR. |
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| Mintage | 1991 - - 46,000 |
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Hutt River Province declared independence from Western Australia in 1970 after a dispute over wheat production quotas, and its founder Leonard Casley — who styled himself Prince Leonard I — spent the following decades issuing coins, stamps, and currency as functional assertions of sovereignty. This piece belongs to a run of novelty issues produced in the early 1990s aimed squarely at the collector market, with the "U.S. Jeep" theme reflecting no particular political or historical event specific to Hutt River itself.
The X# prefix in the Krause catalog denotes it as a non-circulating or fantasy issue from a territory with unrecognized status — useful provenance for cataloging purposes, nothing more.