Top-down view of a preserved wood fragment encased in a black-framed display. The wood is splintered and rough, showing significant age and damage, with a dark, rounded metal coin lodged within its fibres. The piece rests on a beige fabric lining atop a wooden base.

How the coin got there, no one knows. A forgotten prank? A hidden wish? Nature simply grew around it. A quiet collision of human and natural history, sealed in oak.

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