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50 Cents - Leonard I
| Issuer | Hutt River |
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| Year | 1976-1978 |
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| Value | 50 Cents (0.50) |
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| Reverse lettering | ·HUTT·RIVER·PROVINCE· FIFTY CENTS |
| Edge | Plain |
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Hutt River Province declared unilateral secession from Australia in 1970 after a dispute over wheat production quotas — Leonard Casley, a farmer, invoked an obscure provision of imperial law to claim the action legally sound. Whether that argument had merit is debatable, but Australian authorities never forcibly dissolved the province, and it persisted for five decades. These coins were issued as genuine currency of the micronation, circulating primarily as souvenirs and diplomatic curiosities rather than in any commercial economy.