Why the Jemima Puddle-Duck 50p is hard to find
Last year, the Royal Mint revealed a set of five coins all based around Beatrix Potter and her popular Peter Rabbit books.
As a result, thousands of Britons have been scrambling to collect all five of the coins, which feature the characters Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, Jemima Puddle-Duck and a special 150th anniversary coin.
Now, mintage figures from the Royal Mint have revealed that the Jemima Puddle-Duck coin is the rarest in the collection â€" and is the second lowest circulating 50p since the Kew Garden pagoda design.
It means many may be struggling to get the coin to complete the full set.Â
Second rarest: According to Royal Mint figures, the Jemima Puddle-Duck 50p is the second rarest in circulation behind the Kew Gardens one
Royal Mint figures show that 2.1million of the Jemima Puddle-Duck coins were released into circulation.
This compares to 9.6million Peter Rabbit coins, 8.8million Mrs Tiggy-Winkle ones, 6.9million special 50th anniversary coins and 5million Squirrel Nutkin coins.
According to experts at Change Checker, it means the Jemima Puddle-Duck is the 8th rarest coin overall in circulation.
It says: 'When one coin in a series has a much lower mintage figure, collectors struggle to complete the set. We've started to see evidence of this as swap requests from our swap centre users have increased dramatically.
'For every one Jemima Puddle-Duck coin we see liste d as available to swap, there are more than eight users requesting this coin.'
At the time of the coins launching, experts were predicting that many of the Beatrix Potter coins could be taken out of circulation by collectors.
Full sets of the Beatrix Potter coins are selling on eBay for around £10 - or four times the face value of the five 50p coins.
Meanwhile, singular Jemima Puddle-Duck coins regularly fetch around £5 and could head higher as more people look to complete the set.
The Royal Mint revealed in April that there will be an additional four Beatrix Potter themed coins this year after the popularity of the 50p series last year.
The four coins depict Peter Rabbit in his first book, Mr Jeremy Fisher, Tom Kitten and Benjamin Bunny, and are sure to be sought after by collectors who wish to add to the five already in circulation.
Eager numismatists queued to enter the Royal Mint website to view the new set at the time, highlighting the popularity of the coins and collecting them.
Each of the coins is designed by Emma Noble. When the original five launched last year, it was the first time a fictional character had featured on a British coin.
The 'rarest' circulating 50p â€" with the Kew Gardens pagoda on it â€" had a mintage of 210,000 and these can sell for tidy sums online.
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