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| Issuer | Hutt River Province |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1974-2020) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | HUTT RIVER PROVINCE NEW QUEENSLAND MINT 5 FIVE DOLLARS |
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Hutt River Province was a self-declared micronation in Western Australia, established in 1970 by Leonard Casley after a dispute with the federal government over wheat production quotas. Casley proclaimed himself Prince Leonard I and, critically, never faced legal dissolution — Australian authorities largely ignored the secession rather than contest it in court. The province issued coins intermittently through the 1980s and 1990s, and while they held no legal tender status outside Hutt River itself, they were sold to collectors and tourists as a deliberate revenue stream for the tiny territory.
X#31 places this squarely in the Unusual World Coins catalog — the standard reference for non-circulating locals and micronation issues.