Object
Dalek City Demonstration Coin
A polished brass coin, its edges smooth from countless cycles between universes. The Third Doctor flips it once, the rhythmic clink echoing in the cramped shaft as the brass spins end-over-end, serene despite the Drashigs’ skittering above. Jo catches it on her palm, its metal still cool from the Doctor’s quick pocketed retrieval, the single scratch across its face glinting under the scope’s dim emergency light. The ritualistic simplicity contrasts with the death waiting above—the coin’s outcome will split their impossible choice into binary survival or doom.
6 appearances
Purpose
To physically decide the order of descent through the shaft by binary outcome, forcing a definitive choice between the two available options at a critical survival juncture.
Significance
Serves as the sole arbiter of life or death, transforming an otherwise mundane object into the ritual focal point of their desperate gamble against the Drashigs’ encroaching predation.
Appearances in the Narrative
When this object appears and how it's used