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5 Dollars - Leonard I U.S. Jeep

Issuer Hutt River Province
Year 1991
Type Local coin
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Obverse lettering HUTT RIVER PROVINCE NEW QUEENSLAND MINT FIVE DOLLARS 5
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Reverse script Latin
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Additional information

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.

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