The Three Musketeers

A series of four silver coins of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus marking the 165th anniversary of the first publication of Alexandre Dumas’s novel The Three Musketeers: Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D’Artagnan. Designed by Svetlana Nekrasova. The coins were issued on 30 December 2009 in proof and uncirculated finishes, with colour pad printing and a synthetic zircon. All four coins share one side showing the heroes walking along a Parisian street, and the other side of each shows one musketeer with his own emblem: a castle and a lily for Athos, a laid table for Porthos, a stack of books and an abbey for Aramis, Constance for d’Artagnan. The colour of the zircon in the sword hilt is different for each hero. The coins were struck in Germany at B.H. Mayer’s Kunstprägeanstalt.