The Royal Mint had released a Peter Rabbit 50p to mark the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter, an English author best known for her children's books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
The Royal Mint said three more Potter characters will feature on special edition coins released later in the year to complete a four-piece set.
Uncoloured regular 50p coins featuring the designs will be released into general circulation later this year.
The coins were created by Royal Mint designer Emma Noble, who has previously worked on pieces commemorating the Diamond Jubilee and Remembrance Sunday.
She said: "I wanted to put Beatrix Potter's illustrations to the forefront of my design as they are lovely images and the characters are very well known.
"I felt they were strong enough to stand alone and I designed them in this way as I thought they would work best for both the coloured commemorative and uncoloured circulating coins. I really hope people are pleased with them as a set."
Peter Rabbit is a fictional character by Beatrix Potter feature in The Tale of Peter Rabbit in 1902 and subsequently in five more books between 1904 and 1912, from The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin to The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck.
Peter Rabbit's "famous blue jacket" that he is forced to abandon in the garden of Mr McGregor when he is caught stealing vegetables, is captured on a special, coloured edition of a 50p coin available from today.
The Royal Mint, which described Peter as “the most recognisable of Potter’s creations, and one of the most cherished from children’s literature".
Helen Beatrix Potter born July 28, 1866 and she died of complications from pneumonia and heart disease on 22 December 1943.
