A RARE coin featuring a popular character from children's books has sold for 10 times its original monetary value.
A Worcester seller advertised the 50p Beatrix Potter coin from 2016 - Jemima Puddle-Duck UK 50p - on eBay and it sold for £5.
The coin sold in July with its condition described as 'circulated but good'. Other similar coins have sold for £17, £9, £15 and £7.50 on the same online auction site.
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The coins are described as being 'no longer available' on the Royal Mint website. The coin was one of a series minted in 2016, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Beatrix Potter, the author and illustrator.
A Royal Mint Jemima Puddle Duck 2016 UK 50p Silver Proof Coin is now on sale for £299.98.
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter and first published by Frederick Warne & Co. in 1908. The protagonist Jemima Puddle-Duck first appeared in The Tale of Tom Kitten.
The tale is set in Potter's Lake District farm, Hill Top.
Her biographer Judy Taylor suggests that a drawing by Beatrix's father, Rupert Potter, of a flying duck wearing a bonnet, may have been a forerunner of Jemima Puddle-Duck.
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