Rarity

Room in each tier

If the tier you mined has no room right now, the charm drops one tier. Send with minTier and it fails instead.

Odds

Work attribute

Every token carries Work (first 8 hex of the mined hash) and Epoch in its on-chain metadata, so anyone can see how deep it was mined.

Common (12)

• Maneki-nekoJapanCommon

  It sits by the shop door, paw up, holding a gold coin it never spends.

• Four-leaf CloverEurope (British Isles)Common

  Children in the Middle Ages carried one hoping to see the fairies. Finding it is still the whole point.

• HorseshoeEurope / USACommon

  Seven nails over the door. Which way is up depends on which village you ask.

• GlücksschweinGermanyCommon

  Given on New Year's Eve, usually in marzipan, sometimes small enough for a wallet.

• NazarTurkeyCommon

  Pinned to a newborn's blanket. When it cracks, it has done its job and is replaced.

• CornicelloItaly (South)Common

  In Naples it has to be a gift. Buying your own is said to spoil it.

• AcornEngland / Northern EuropeCommon

  Oak belongs to the thunder god. English curtain pulls were carved as acorns to keep lightning from the window.

• Cowrie ShellWest AfricaCommon

  It was money in West Africa into the 1900s. Sixteen of them, thrown on a mat, still tell fortunes.

• Red EnvelopeChina / TaiwanCommon

  New bills, an even number, never four. Opened later, not in front of the giver.

• OmamoriJapanCommon

  Kept in a purse or bag for about a year, then returned to the shrine to be burned.

• WishboneEurope / USACommon

  Dried after dinner, then snapped between two people. The longer half keeps the wish.

• LadybugEuropeCommon

  When one lands, people wish, then watch which way it flies. The luck comes from that direction.

Rare (8)

• DarumaJapanRare

  Sold with both eyes blank. One eye for the wish, the other when it comes true.

• Gold IngotChinaRare

  The shape money had before coins were round. Set out at New Year; folded from paper for the ancestors.

• HamsaMiddle East / North AfricaRare

  Painted on house walls across the Maghreb, and over the door where a newborn sleeps.

• PysankaUkraineRare

  Drawn in hot wax on a raw egg, at night, in Lent's last week. One goes to the hens.

• KoiJapan / ChinaRare

  Bred by rice farmers in Niigata for winter food. The carp that climbs the falls becomes a dragon.

• Dala HorseSwedenRare

  Carved from slow pine in Dalarna, nine pairs of hands per horse. It began as a winter toy.

• Lucky PineappleTaiwanRare

  In Taiwanese it sounds like 'prosperity comes'. Shops set one out on opening day. Fire stations don't.

• Lucky ElephantIndia / Thailand / MyanmarRare

  Trunk up or trunk down, every seller will tell you which. In India it meant royalty long before luck.

Epic (5)

• Jin ChanChinaEpic

  Three legs, a coin in its mouth, sitting on more. Never placed facing the front door.

• CornucopiaAncient Greece / RomeEpic

  A goat's horn Zeus broke off as a baby. It has been pouring out food ever since.

• Five Emperor CoinsChinaEpic

  Five Qing reigns on one red cord. Laid under the threshold, or carried in the wallet.

• TumiPeruEpic

  A ceremonial knife of soft gold, too soft to cut. Peruvian walls hang one for luck now.

• ScarabEgyptEpic

  Laid over a mummy's heart, with a spell asking the heart not to testify against its owner.

Legendary (5)

• PixiuChinaLegendary

  A beast with no way out for what it swallows. Kept facing the window, and nobody else touches it.

• QilinEast AsiaLegendary

  Said to appear before a sage is born. In 1414 a giraffe reached Nanjing and was taken for one.

• Dragon TurtleChinaLegendary

  Dragon head out toward the door, turtle shell in, with a small turtle riding on its back.

• GriffinEurope / Ancient GreeceLegendary

  Herodotus heard it guarded gold in the far north, and that one-eyed men kept stealing it.

• FirebirdSlavic (Eastern Europe)Legendary

  Ivan caught one feather; the bird got away. That feather is how the whole story starts.