Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit 50P Coin 2016 at the best online prices at eBay! Free delivery for many products! Peter Rabbit 50p. Produced to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Beatrix Potter, the popular Peter Rabbit 50p coins feature one of the nations most lovable storybook characters. The limited edition of just 15,000 coins was launched in 2016, showcasing two different designs.
- Eight 50p designs have been issued in 2016. A commemorative to mark 950 years since the Battle of Hastings, the standard coin with the shield design, five coins to mark the 150th Birthday of Beatrix Potter (the BEATRIX POTTER coin, Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Squirrel Nutkin and Mrs Tiggy-Winkle).
- 2016 Peter Rabbit Fifty Pence - Coloured Silver Proof Fifty Pence Coin. Demand Soars for Peter Rabbit. The fifty pence is a close contender with the two pound coin as the UK's favourite coin to collect and with two versions of the 2016 Peter Rabbit fifty pence available, coin collectors all over the nation are brimming with excitement.
While many versions of the 50p coin have been issued, few designs raise a smile like those released to commemorate the beloved children’s author Beatrix Potter.
Various characters have been honoured over the years, with some of the coins issued in smaller mintages, which makes them more valued by collectors.
The Royal Mint has revealed the rarest 50p coins in circulation ahead of the 50th anniversary of decimalisation, which included two of the Beatrix Potter designs.
Here are the coins to look out for in your own loose change, and how they compare to some of the rarest coins in circulation.
© Provided by The i Two Beatrix Potter designs were named among the rarest 50p coins by the Royal Mint (Photo: PA)How rare are the Beatrix Potter 50p coins?
Two of the Beatrix Potter collection make the Royal Mint’s top 10 rankings – one adorned with the image of Peter Rabbit, the other with Flopsy Bunny.
Both were released into circulation in 2018, and have a mintage of 1,400,000, putting them in joint sixth position.
While there has only been one Flopsy Bunny 50p coin issued, the Peter Rabbit design is one of three, with the others – released in 2016 and 2017 – far more common.
There are other relatively rare Beatrix Potter coins, such as the 2018 Mrs Tittlemouse coin with a circulation of 1,700,000, and the Jemima Puddle Duck design from 2016 at 2,100,000.
Others with a comparatively low mintage include the 2018 Tailor of Gloucester (3,900,000), and the 2016 Squirrel Nutkin (5,000,000), while the most common design is the 2017 Benjamin Button coin, with 25,000,000 released into circulation.
The 2009 Kew Gardens 50p remains by far the rarest coin in circulation, with a mintage of just 210,000, while the most common, the 1997 Britannia 50p, has a circulation of 456,364,100 times. Here is the Royal Mint’s full top 10:
1. 2009 Kew Gardens, 210,000
2. 2011 Olympic Wrestling, 1,129,500
=3. 2011 Olympic Football, 1,161,500
=3. 2011 Olympic Judo, 1,161,500
5. 2011 Olympic Triathlon, 1,163,500
=6. 2018 Peter Rabbit, 1,400,000
=6. 2018 Flopsy Bunny, 1,400,000
8. 2011 Olympic Tennis, 1,454,000
9. 2011 Olympic Goalball, 1,615,500
10. 2011 Olympic Shooting, 1,656,500
Are the Beatrix Potter 50p coins valuable?
The rare coins website Change Checker has an eBay tracker, which details how some 50p coins can fetch significant sums in the secondary sale market.
According to this, the most valuable of the Beatrix Potter coins is the Jemima Puddle-Duck design, which fetched an average of £12.00 over the nine most recent completed eBay sales up to mid-January.
This is significantly behind the Kew Gardens 50p coin, which reportedly attracted an average price of £156.00.
There are are no shortage of sellers on eBay purporting to sell a range of rare 50p coins, which tend to offer the 2018 Peter Rabbit and Flopsy Bunny designs for between £9 and £15.
It should be pointed out, as Change Checker states, the market in supposedly valuable coins “can be a bit of a minefield,” and it’s important to do your research before being taken in by viral stories of coins fetching huge sums.
Last year, for example, various reports claimed a Battle of Hastings 50p sold for £63,000 on eBay, supposedly because it was “very rare”.
This coin was launched in 2016 to commemorate the famous battle’s 950th anniversary, with as many as 6.7 million entering circulation.
Speaking to The Mirror, Alexandra Fiddons from Change Checker wasn’t able to explain exactly why the coin would sell for such a purportedly high fee, but said that sometimes “random coins” do reach surprising prices.
While some coins can fetch sums comfortably above their 50p value, often it is “error coins” – versions which found their way into circulation after being minted with mistakes – which are particularly valued by collectors.
First issued in 2016, the Beatrix Potter 50p coins became hugely popular thanks to the subject - thousands of us grew up reading about the cheeky bunny and his friends - and the growing appeal of collecting 50p coins, sparked by the ambitious London 2012 Olympics 50p series.
How many Beatrix Potter 50p coins are there?
The first Beatrix Potter 50p coins were released in 2016 to mark 150 years since the famous writer and illustrator's birth. This first issue consisted of the following coins:
- Peter Rabbit 50p coin
- Mrs Tiggy-Winkle 50p coin
- Jemima Puddle-Duck 50p coin
- Squirrel Nutkin 50p coin
- Beatrix Potter 150th anniversary 50p coin
Peter Rabbit 50p 2016 Ebay
In 2017 The Royal Mint issued further Beatrix Potter coins, as follows:
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit 50p coin
- Jeremy Fisher 50p coin
- Benjamin Bunny 50p coin
- Tom Kitten 50p coin
In 2018 the series continued with the released of the following coins:
- Peter Rabbit 50p coin
- Flopsy Bunny 50p coin
- Tailor of Gloucester 50p coin
- Mrs Tittlemouse 50p coin
Change Checker stock a number of the Beatrix Potter 50ps which you can secure for your collection here >>
Which Beatrix Potter coins are the most valuable?
According to our friends at Change Checker, the most scarce Beatrix Potter 50p is the 2016 Jemima Puddle-Duck coin, which is rated as the third rarest 50p coin in circulation (behind the 2017 Sir Isaac Newton and the 2009 Kew Gardens coins) with a relatively low mintage of 2.1 million. The coin is no longer available from The Royal Mint and examples can be bought for between £10 and £20 on ebay.
The second scarcest coin is the 2016 Squirrel Nutkin, with a mintage figure of 5 million. This coin can be bought for around £3.50 on ebay.
The mintage of the other Beatrix Potter coins is as follows:
- 2016 Beatrix Potter 150th Anniversary - 6.9 million
- 2016 Mrs Tiggy-Winkle - 8.8 million
- 2017 Tom Kitten - 9.5 million
- 2017 Jeremy Fisher - 9.9 million
- 2017 Peter Rabbit - 19.9 million
- 2017 Benjamin Bunny - 25 million
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So why are Beatrix Potter coins going for £100s on ebay?
There are different versions of new coins issued by The Royal Mint. The figures detailed above are for circulation coins - the examples that we find in our loose change. For each new coin, The Royal Mint issue a Silver Proof Coloured version, a Brilliant Uncirculated (BU) and the circulation copy.
Peter Rabbit 50p 2016
Only 15,000 copies of the 2016 Peter Rabbit Silver Proof Coloured 50p coin were released and they quickly sold out, with The Royal Mint website crashing due to the huge demand.
This means the coloured version - not actually a circulation coin, it wouldn't be accepted in shops - is now worth around £400.
The coloured versions of the 2017 coins can be bought for £125 each from sites such as The Westminster Collection. The 2018 Silver Proof Coloured versions are priced at £60 each. But since there are limited numbers of these special edition coins, they are likely to go up in value in the years to come.
Buyer beware! Examples with a 'professionally made sticker' are being offered on ebay - these coins are not the official Silver Proof Coloured 50p coins, but just feature a coloured sticker over the original design.
Brilliant Uncirculated (BU) versions of the coin feature a pristine finish (and usually sold in special packaging to retain their condition) that isn't seen on the circulated coins. Yet generally speaking they are only marginally more valuable than the examples we find in our loose change.
You can purchase Brilliant Uncirculated versions of the 2018 coins for £10 from The Royal Mint website, whilst The Westminster Collection offers versions for as little as £3.99.
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What should I do if I find a Beatrix Potter coin?
If you find a Beatrix Potter coin in your change why not keep it and complete the collection? It's unlikely your coin will fetch £100s or £1,000s on ebay, but the coins make for a lovely collection and there are a variety of different folders available to store and display the coins.
In future years the lower mintage coins will gain value, and the Jemima Puddle-Duck 50p is definitely the one to look our for, so keep an eye on your change and enjoy the thrill of the hunt. It's no longer just that nasty Mr McGregor that's searching high and low for Peter Rabbit!
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