Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit first appeared in print in October 1902, when Potter self-published The Tale of Peter Rabbit after multiple rejections from commercial publishers. Frederick Warne & Co. had turned it down twice before eventually issuing the trade edition — the very publication this coin marks the centennial of. Gibraltar's Royal Mint licensing arrangements during this period made it a prolific issuer of commemorative crown-sized pieces tied to British cultural properties, producing numerous series that had no particular connection to the territory itself.
Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit first appeared in print in October 1902, when Potter self-published The Tale of Peter Rabbit after multiple rejections from commercial publishers. Frederick Warne & Co. had turned it down twice before eventually issuing the trade edition — the very publication this coin marks the centennial of. Gibraltar's Royal Mint licensing arrangements during this period made it a prolific issuer of commemorative crown-sized pieces tied to British cultural properties, producing numerous series that had no particular connection to the territory itself.