Editing Principality of Hutt River (section)

==Currency==
The principality's currency was the Hutt River Dollar, which was divided into 100 [[Cent (currency)|cents]]. The Hutt River Dollar was pegged at a one-to-one ratio with the [[Australian dollar|Australian Dollar]].<ref name="Coins">{{cite web |url=http://www.principality-hutt-river.com/Principality%20Downloads/CAB%20Article%20Nov%202013.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241003114106/http://www.principality-hutt-river.com/Principality%20Downloads/CAB%20Article%20Nov%202013.pdf |url-status=live |archive-date=3 October 2024 |quote=The currency unit is the PHR Dollar tied at a ratio of one-to-one with the Australian Dollar. |at=Coining it |title=The Coins of HRH Prince Leonard I |last=Rogers |first=Kerry |website=principlaity-hutt-river.com |access-date=10 February 2014}}</ref> All authorised principality coins were minted by Canada's Lombardo Mint and the New Queensland Mint.

===First series: 1976–78===

Four denominations of coins, 5c, 10c, 20c and 50c, were issued from 1976 to 1978, but the 1978 issue was a [[proof coinage|proof]] only issue. There was also a [[silver]] $30 coin and a [[gold]] $100 coin, struck only in proof.<ref name=Coins/>

{|class="wikitable"
|+First Series coins
|-
!scope="col" rowspan="2"| Value
!scope="col" colspan="2"| Technical parameters
!scope="col" colspan="3"| Description
!scope="col" rowspan="2"| Date of first minting
|-
!scope="col" | Diameter
!scope="col" | Composition
!scope="col" | Edge
!scope="col" | Obverse
!scope="col" | Reverse
|-
!scope="row"| 5c
| 16.5&nbsp;mm
| [[Aluminium]]
|rowspan="4" | Plain
|rowspan="6" | Leonard Casley
|rowspan="6" | Coat of arms
|rowspan="6" | 1976
|-
!scope="row"| 10c
| 19.1&nbsp;mm
| [[Copper]]
|-
!scope="row"| 20c
| 22.4&nbsp;mm
| [[Brass]]
|-
!scope="row"| 50c
| 24.9&nbsp;mm
| [[Cupronickel]]
|-
!scope="row"| $30
| 38.1&nbsp;mm
| 99‰ [[silver]]
| Reeded
|-
!scope="row"| $100
| 25&nbsp;mm
| 24 carat [[gold]]
| Plain
|-
|colspan="8"|{{Standard coin table notice|BrE=Y}}
|}

===Silver Jubilee $1 coin===
[[File:Hutt river province currency 01.jpg|thumb|right|1986 100-dollar Hutt River Province coin commemorating the centennial of the Statue of Liberty (front and back) manufactured by Johnson Matthey Refining, Rochester, New York]]

In 1977, $1 coins were struck to commemorate the [[Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II]]. These coins are known as "[[holey dollar]]s". Coins of the same design were struck again in 1978, without the inscription "Queen's Jubilee".<ref name=Coins/>

===Later series===
In 2010, the principality issued a $30 gold- and silver-plated brass coin to mark the 40th anniversary of independence. Following the death of his wife in 2013, Casley authorised a special commemorative coin to celebrate her life.<ref name=Coins/>

===Commemorative coins===
[[File:Hutt River Province coin 1991.JPG|left|thumb|A 1991 20-dollar coin was part of a series commemorating [[Operation Desert Storm]]]]

All of these principality coins are contained in the standard catalogue of ''Unusual World Coins'' by Colin Bruce II, edited by Tom Michael and George Cuhaj. A A$100 denomination proof commemorative coin issue that contained one [[troy ounce]] of pure [[palladium]] sold for $299 in 1989; the 2012 value of the palladium content was $630.<ref>{{cite web |first=Ed |last=Rochette |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611060056/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-3971158.html |via=HighBeam Research |title=One-man nation strikes again |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |date=19 November 1989 |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-3971158.html |url-status=dead |access-date=14 June 2012 |archive-date=11 June 2014}}</ref>
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