5 Dollars - Leonard I U.S.M.C. landing on Leyte Island

Hutt River — the self-declared principality in Western Australia founded by Leonard Casley in 1970 after a dispute with the state government over wheat quotas — issued a sprawling series of commemorative coins throughout the 1980s and 1990s, most bearing Casley's self-styled title of Prince Leonard I. This piece marks the U.S. Marine Corps landing at Leyte in October 1944, part of MacArthur's return to the Philippines. The connection between a 23-square-kilometer Australian farm-state and Pacific theater history is purely commercial.