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10 Euros The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 2026 |
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| Weight | 22.2 g |
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| Obverse description | Central to the obverse is a quill feather — 'l'art de la plume' — evoking the art of writing, rendered in fine relief against a plain field. The face value '10 €' and the French Republican monogram 'RF' appear in the lower portion of the field. Surrounding the central motif, four emblematic literary and philosophical quotations are arranged in the field: Voltaire's 'Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien', Dante Alighieri's 'Lasciate ogne speranza voi ch'intrate', Shakespeare's 'To be or not to be: that is the question', and Nietzsche's 'Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker', each inscribed in its original language. |
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| Obverse lettering | Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien Lasciate ogne speranza voi ch'intrate To be or not to be: that is the question Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker L'art de la plume 10 € RF |
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Part of Monnaie de Paris's ongoing collaboration with the Agatha Christie estate, this issue commemorates the centenary of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, first published in 1926. The novel's unreliable narrator twist is widely credited with reshaping detective fiction permanently — Christie's own publisher initially rejected the device as unsportsmanlike before relenting.