Challenge #04940-M191: Give Your All

They were poor, but at time of offering at the temple, they gave their very last coin with a wish. Not for wealth for themselves, but, of all things, for the children of the local lord who was not unkind, would survive their illnesses. And the poor who gave their very last? The gods always know. -- BKF

See a copper, pick it up, and all the day you'll have good luck. So the saying goes. The truth of the luck of a relatively worthless coin is debatable. Then again, worth is relative.

To Old Dimaas, who lived on forage and the few things ze could forage or trade for, a single copper coin was more money than ze had seen in hir life.

It was covered in verdigris and filthy, but it had turned up inside a fish that ze caught. Dimaas had seen people in the town use such coins as trade. Ze took it to the town with hir trade goods to see what may be bought.

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