Field guide No. 201

An ornate brass coin purse lies open on green velvet, a long black velvet bar sliding out of it. Whatever it bought, nobody is saying.

Hush money

Paid in velvet.

An ornate brass coin purse lies open on green velvet, a long black velvet bar sliding out of it. Whatever it bought, nobody is saying.

Field notePurses hold coin; this one holds velvet. Odd currency, perfectly constructible.

Specimen
No. 201
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Material
Where it doesn’t exist
Green velvet, under a reading lamp.
Nearest existing relative
A coin purse, and a velvet bar.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Objects

Also possible, also breaking material