Silver buttons

Danae, however, was determined to get some answers. She swept up some of the assorted coins that Tulei had sitting on the table in front of them and crossed over to the other side of the crowded tavern. The bard stopped strumming the small harp as she approached. Danae said nothing but held her hand out to him, offering forth a few copper coins, and one dull silver button.
The bard raised and eyebrow and plucked the button out of her palm with his thin fingers. "Well," he said in his honeyed voice. "What do you bring me today?" He gently placed the button back down into her palm.
"I need info."
The corners of his lips turned up into a bit of a smile. "I've got more of that than you can handle," he promised.

Significance

After the failed invasion of Fienenheim by the Empire of Galdor, and the subsequent mysterious absence of Galdorloth's strongest mage, the imperial prince came up with a new plan to take the island country. Believing that his armies had failed due to the strength of the magic used by the Fienen people, Prince Galdor VII arranged a small contingent of spies and mages to infiltrate the island country, assess the situation, steal any magical secrets, and destabilize it from within.
When some Fienen citizens became aware of this secret infiltration, small hidden groups formed to root out the spies and fight back the continued Galdorian invasion. As missions moved away from the islands and into mainland Galdorloth, mercenaries and hired hands for the Fienenheim resistance found that an inconspicuous symbol of their allegiances became necessary. It was agreed that it needed to be something that any normal person could feasibly have, so that it could be explained away easily enough if they were discovered by imperials. But it also needed to be a little out of the ordinary so that it wasn't incredibly commonplace any normal people were being mistaken for fellow insurgents. A silver colored button was eventually settled on after a few prototyped items. Sometimes made of real silver, or plated with silver, or even just a wooden button painted silver. These silver-colored buttons would be often stitched to their garments, or slipped into a handful of coins used for payment to an allied merchant.

Item type

Miscellaneous

Rarity

very common

Weight

1 gram

Raw materials & Components

Very seldomly are these made of actual silver, but are instead wooden or metal painted to be silver colored.