10 Euros Aramis

Part of Monnaie de Paris's ongoing literary heroes series, this piece commemorates Aramis — the most politically ambiguous of Dumas's three musketeers, a character whose clerical ambitions and Jesuit entanglements drive much of the intrigue in both The Three Musketeers and its sequels. Dumas based the character loosely on Henri d'Aramitz, a real Gascon nobleman and lay abbot who served in the Musketeers under Captain de Tréville in the 1640s.

Billon at .333 fineness sits just above the threshold where silver content becomes almost incidental to the alloy — a deliberate cost-control choice that keeps the series accessible as a collector product rather than a bullion-adjacent issue.