Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle on 50p coin

June 21, 2017 • 3:30 pm

When Grania forwarded me this tw**t, I thought it was a huge joke:

But it’s TRUE! One of my favorite Beatrix Potter characters—unfairly mocked at the end of the book as “she’s just a hedgehog!” after her washerwoman disguise slips— is on a 50p coin issued by The Royal Mint. Sadly, it was issued last year and appears to be unavailable now:

“Only a hedgehog!” A hedgehog who can do laundry! What a stunning bit of species-ism which, for me, ruined the story:

I think there’s a postmodernist, feminist, intersectional Ph.D. thesis to be written on Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle. What would it be called?

p.s. I found the coin for a few bucks on eBay and bought it.

 

29 thoughts on “Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle on 50p coin”

  1. The Darwin £2.
    The Tiggy Winkle 50p piece.
    Are you attempting to appropriate UK monetary culture?

  2. This is so cool! I love Mrs Tiggy-Winkle. I’m going to try and get one too.

  4. Squirrel Nutkin is also on a 50p coin. Surely Squirrel Nutkin is also one of your favorites.

  5. I would have thought you would have gone for the Squirrel Nutkin coin!

    My favourite 50P back is the one that explains the off side law.

  7. What could your imagined paper be called….hmmmm…

    How about “The Piercing Spines of Capitalist Symbols: How Female Hedgehogs are Co-opted by the Kyriarchy to Buttress Male Domination”

    That hedgehog sure is cute, though. Boy do I love those things. I want that coin, and I also want the Squirrel Nutkin one from the reply tw**t in the link. I’m a sucker for adorable stuff.

  8. The ‘circular’ seven sided 50p coin comes in all sorts of patterns. Once a coin of value it has become a bit of a joke. With metrication in 1971 it replaced the old ten shilling (bob) note, known as ‘half a bar’. Back then you could buy three pints of good ale with it – a night in the pub – now it won’t buy you a Mars bar.

  10. There is a whole series of these Beatrix Potter character 50p coins, including some with coloured (enamelled faces). From what I have heard (btw I work for an auctioneer one of whose main areas is coins) Jemima Puddleduck is the hardest to locate.

  11. Theres a full aet issue1d by the royal mint.theres four in the first collection and they have just started anotjer four

    1. They are making QEII look a bit more realistic these days. When I was a kid, I thought she (forever) looked just like she did when she was coronated. 🙂

      1. Well, it’s tradition on many country’s bills and coins to depict the person on it when they were in power (or, in Elizabeth II’s case, when she came to power).

        1. Her “power” is non existent,its purely imaginary,as illustrated with the Queens Speech, yesterday,she turned up in Mufti for a quick getaway to the Races,as the PM T.May had changed the timing of the Speech to Mid Ascot Week,when the idle rich faff about in Top Hat and Tails,looking ridiculous. Here’s a remark by the wonderful Dennis Skinner MP to illustrate the point. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-40351816/the-queen-s-speech-mp-tells-black-rod-to-get-skates-on

  18. I work in retail and have come accross a lot of mrs tiggy-winkle that customers have in their change. I also have a peter rabbit and puddle duck. I got them all for 50p each as thats their value, just keep an eye on your change as you could possibly have one.

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