Green dollar sign tattoo with a black outline and white highlights on the centre of a palm, against a metal grate.

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Green dollar sign on a palm

Hand · Colour · Photo

A large dollar sign is tattooed in the centre of an open palm. The symbol is filled with green ink, outlined in black, and has pale highlight lines along its edges. The background is a metal grate, and the warm, somewhat dim lighting gives the photograph a slightly grainy look.

Hand Dollar sign Symbol Palm

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Rain had been coming sideways down Fenwick Row since six, and Mabel Crane had given up on the awning. She stood under the tin sign of the grain merchant with the cash tin pressed to her hip, counting coins that had gone soft and grey in the wet.

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Lenny Vosper came up the row the way he always did on market day, collar up, boots loud on the wet setts. He paid for a sack of split peas with a wad of notes folded twice, the green on them dark as pond water. 'Keep the change in the tin, Mabel,' he said. 'Bank's shut till Monday and I don't trust the post.'

She didn't trust him either. Ink ran in rain. She had learned that years back, when a bus ticket in her coat pocket bled blue through the lining. She tucked the notes flat under her thumb, meaning to check them under the lamp at the back of the stall, but the wet ran straight through the paper in a green bloom that spread across her skin.

By closing time the market was a river of cardboard and rotten lettuce. She sat on an upturned crate with the tin in her lap and held her palm up to the single bulb. Every note in the stack had printed its colour onto the wet, and the colour had come off on her, a neat green sign with a black edge, sitting dead centre where she had gripped the money. She laughed until the stallholder next door came over to ask if she was alright. Lenny had been paying her in dye all week, and she was the only one who had been counting it. Tomorrow she would take the notes to the bank herself, dry and flat, and let them tell her what they were worth.