The World of Peter Rabbit - The Complete Collection of Original Tales 1-23 White Jackets

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The rare 2018 Peter Rabbit design depicts the character chomping on a radish (Photo: PA) How rare is the Peter Rabbit 50p coin? The design, once again by Emma Noble and based on an original illustration by Beatrix Potter, shows an image from‘The Tales of Benjamin Bunny’ with Peter Rabbit holding a handkerchief which was used to take onions from the garden. 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. Her father, a talented amateur photographer, had friendships within the London art world including the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais (1829–1896), whose family would holiday with the Potters in Perthshire, Scotland.

Senior Museum Archivist Francesca Hillier describes the Museum Potter would have visited in 1903: 'Although the Reading Room is largely unchanged since Potter first visited, the area surrounding it is quite different today. Millais recognised Potter's talent, telling her: 'Plenty of people can draw, but you have observation. The Royal Mint has revealed the rarest 50p coins in circulation ahead of the 50th anniversary of decimilisation, with the Peter Rabbit coin among the scarcest.

Following the popularity of this coin, the more common 2017 edition depicted Peter side-on as he hopped towards adventure. Educated at home by a governess and cared for by nannies, she had few friends of her own age and lived a life of lonely privilege.

There are actually various iterations of the Peter Rabbit 50p coin, and the scarcity varies wildly from version to version. Access to the Reading Room was via a corridor leading from the Front Hall, and once there, Potter would have been free to request any book and take her place at one of the leather-clad desks. These stories included the adventures of Peter's cousin, Benjamin Bunny, named after one of her pet rabbits, and the father to the Flopsy Bunnies. The much-loved character Peter Rabbit, created by Beatrix Potter, has hopped his way on to a number of British 50p coins.The figures detailed above are for circulation coins - the examples that we find in our loose change. Here’s how it compares to other low-mintage designs, including other Beatrix Potter tributes, and which coins you should look out for. With the encouragement of her father, Potter went on to study at the National Art Training School in London (now the Royal College of Art).