The design depicts Peter Rabbit munching on radishes. In 2018, the Royal Mint released a 50p coin to commemorate the story, featuring a design by Emma Noble inspired by some of Beatrix Potter’s original paintings. This reports that the 2009 Kew Gardens coin sold for an average of £156 over the auction website’s nine most recent listings, according to the most recent update, a significantly higher sum than its rivals. Peter Rabbit is a popular children’s book by Beatrix Potter that first appeared in The Tale of Peter Rabbit in 1902. 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. 2011 Olympic Shooting, 1,656,500 How much is the Kew Gardens 50p coin worth? Here are the rarest 50p designs in circulation, with their year and their total mintage, according to the Royal Mint:ġ0. The Kew Gardens coin was minted to mark the institution’s 250th anniversary (Photo: Getty Images) What are the rarest 50p coins in circulation? It adds: “Demand for the 50p denomination was not high at the time of release into circulation which explains the low mintage of this particular design.”Īccording to Matt Curtis, The Royal Mint’s Historics and Collector Services Expert: “As the mintage numbers were so low, many collectors removed the coins from circulation when found.”Ī new version of the Kew Gardens 50p was issued in 2019, as part of a special British Culture Set marking 50 years of the 50p coin. Just 210,000 were released into circulation and with almost all of them in private hands, the chances of coming across one in your change are slim.” “Nothing gets people excited quite like this original 2009 design.

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