Hundred Acre Series

The Royal Mint has released the inaugural issue in its Winnie the Pooh three-coin series, made to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the beloved fictional bear. Created in collaboration with the Walt Disney Company, the first coin celebrates the kindness Winnie the Pooh shows his friends. On the reverse, Pooh hugs a bouquet of flowers in the forest. Martin Jennings’s effigy of King Charles III appears on the obverse. The other coins in the series will be released in April and June.

Each piece in the series will be available in brilliant-uncirculated (unlimited mintage), brilliant-uncirculated color (15,000), silver proof color (4,000), and gold proof (100) versions. The coins can be purchased individually as they are released or as a set. If purchased as a set, customers will be charged for and receive each coin when it is released. For more information and to order, visit the Royal Mint’s website.

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Inspired by a stuffed toy English author A.A. Milne purchased for his son, Winnie the Pooh is the main character in Milne’s children’s book of the same name, published on October 14, 1926. Winnie-the-Pooh was a critical and commercial success, selling 150,000 copies before the end of the year. Two years later, Milne published a second book featuring Winnie the Pooh, titled The House at Pooh Corner. He also mentioned the teddy bear in several poems in his children’s verse books When We Were Very Young (1924) and Now We Are Six (1927). English artist E.H. Shepard illustrated all four volumes. 

In 1961 the Walt Disney Company licensed the rights to the Winnie the Pooh stories. Since 1966, has produced numerous animated films featuring the honey-loving bear and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood.