Heckethaler

Pot of Gold flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says: Check out this link to get a random German fairy tale. Now make us some art based on whatever you get – maybe a picture or a poem. I landed on The Heckethaler (Swinemünde), which I discovered is a magical self-replicating coin. I have nursery rhymes on my mind, so here’s the poem that wrote itself for me: Heckethaler What would I do with a magic coin? Could I solve the problems of the world, a guinea at a time? A penny for the match girl, Another for your thoughts, And one for the old man’s hat