The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, published in 1908, is a revision of the Little Red Riding Hood Story, reimagine on a farm with an Aylesbury duck as the title character. The depictions of farm buildings were taken from real places near Potter's Lake District home.
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter's birth, the Royal Mint released a special collection of five coins featuring characters from her adored tales. Jemima Puddle-Duck is in Beatrix's twelfth story, "The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck", where the domestic duck struggles to find a hidden and safe place to lay her eggs. She gets persuaded by a wily fox to lay her eggs in his shed, without realising his true intentions of eating her and her eggs.
She's saved at the last moment by a farm collie who saw through the fox's plan immediately. Proof finish coins are designed for collectors and offer a higher level of detail than their circulating counterparts. This item is in the category "Coins\Coins\British\Decimal Coinage (c.The seller is "uk_coinshop" and is located in this country: GB. This item can be shipped to United Kingdom, Antigua and Barbuda, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Republic of Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Australia, United States, Bahrain, Canada, Brazil, Japan, New Zealand, Israel, Hong Kong, Norway, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Bangladesh, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Barbados, Brunei Darussalam, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Ecuador, Egypt, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Grenada, French Guiana, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka, Macau, Monaco, Maldives, Montserrat, Martinique, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Paraguay, Reunion, Turks and Caicos Islands, Aruba, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Chile, Bahamas, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Kuwait, Panama, Philippines, Qatar, Trinidad and Tobago, Vietnam.