Three-Faced Coin
Wondrous Item, Common

This gold piece appears to be a normal coin, with the crown of Galifar on one side and the Octogram of the Sovereign Host on the other. However, when flipped, it will land with one of three different symbols showing, each corresponding to one of the patrons of the Three Faces of Coin: Kol Korran, Onatar, and Kol Turrant (the Keeper). When you flip the coin, you can will the coin to land displaying a face of your choice. Once this property is used, you cannot do so again until the next dawn.

While this item doesn’t require a command word or Attunement, the ability must be consciously triggered; if you’ve never used a Three-faced coin before, you must spend a Short Rest studying it to learn how to activate it. After being flipped, the coin returns to its usual two faces when a creature next touches it.

Contraband on the Frontier

The Three Faces of Coin have been involved in smuggling operations in the region since before Droaam became a nation. But what is it that smugglers smuggle? If an adventurer has the Smuggler background, just how sordid is their past?

Some of the goods that are smuggled are forbidden in Breland, such as…

Weapons. During the Last War, smugglers sold Brelish weaponry—such as Long Rods and Blast Disks (as described in Exploring Eberron)—to Droaamite warlords (especially Rhesh Turakbar) and brigands. Today, this trade often flows in the other direction. The Venomous Demesne produces arcane weaponry that is both more sophisticated and more horrifying than their Brelish counterparts. Aurum Concordians, criminal groups, dissidents like the Swords of Liberty, and other private citizens may take interest in such tools.

Drugs. Dragon’s blood can temporarily grant or enhance sorcerous abilities, but it is dangerous and highly addictive. Blood gin allows the imbiber to experience the last moments of someone who died. These are just a few examples of drugs produced in Droaam; both are illegal in Breland.

In general, goods that are outlawed are either dangerous or disturbing. However, there are also goods that are fundamentally harmless, but which have tariffs imposed upon them to protect Brelish interests. These include Eldeen goods from Sylbaran—from goodberry wine to Sylbaran honey—as well as things like harpy sugar, a sweetener that’s entirely mundane but “as sweet as a harpy’s song” or trollskin bandages, which are nonmagical but highly effective. When adventurers acquire these items, the tariffs have already been paid, but smugglers can make a decent profit by bypassing the King’s Assessors. So it’s not the most exciting crime, but the dashing wandslinger could have been going back and forth with a Bag of Holding filled with harpy sugar!