Coin Dragon

Appearance. Coin dragons are the smallest species of dragon, tending to range in size from 4 to 6 inches long. Their scales are a glittering gold of the same colouration as their coin. Their wingspan is almost twice their length and stretches out in a tiny glittering membrane. Their skeleton is increadibly rigid making them impenatrable to being crushed. A short pair of horns point ot of the back of their heads.

Guardians of Tiny Hoards. The coin dragon will guard its hoard at all costs. However, being the smallest dragon, its hoard is only one gold coin. The coin dragon will clutch onto its lone gold coin until it dies. However, these coins are not out of circulation. Instead, the coin dragon will ride along with whoever is in possession of the coin at any one time, clinging to the coin. Anyone who tries to remove the dragon from its coin will be on the end of the dragons breath weapon, a tiny but powerful arc of lightning. The dragon will carve its name into its coin in draconic, so it always knows which coin belongs to it.

Friendly to their Species If someone's collection of coins contains multiple coin dragons, then the coin dragons will band together to guard the entire coin collection. When one coin dragons coin is spent however the dragon will go with it, saying a heartfelt farewell to the other dragons in Draconic.

Parents on The Move Coin Dragons breed on the move. When a male and a female are in the same hoard during the months of spring the two will mate, with the female laying her clutch of 2 to 6 eggs on her coin. The eggs will hatch during summer. The dragonlets take about one lunar month (30 nights) to fledge, at which point they will either select a coin in the pile where they were raised to live on, or they will fly away to find a coin to latch onto.

Environment and Diet. Coin dragons dwell both in coin collections of people and in the "wild", typically in temperate forests, public parks, burms and gardens, and near banks. In the "wild", coin dragons form small packs, guarding a pile of coins with groups of them going out to hunt for food. Food in the wild for coin dragons are insects, mice and small birds. In coin collections coin dragons will live off of scraps of meat from the owners pantry or rations.