10 Euros Pinocchio, silver 333‰

Billon at .333 fineness sits closer to base metal than precious, a deliberate choice that keeps this Monnaie de Paris literary series accessible without sacrificing the collectibility of a silver alloy. Pinocchio — Carlo Collodi's 1883 creation, serialized in an Italian children's newspaper before anyone imagined it as a coherent novel — has spent over a century being softened by Disney adaptations that bear little resemblance to the original's genuinely dark moral mechanics.