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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9458834" data-attributes="member: 7044704">Alternately, make the holes plenty large enough to allow free passage for the bugs, and have a fantasy wasp/bee hive inside each of them, built on and around the coins.  The "trap" stops being subtle - the PCs will almost certainly notice insects going in and out and buzzing around the area - and how to deal with them without getting an angry swarm in the face becomes the question.  Less of a gotcha while still being a problem.Depending on circumstances, these could be fairly normal insects or more fantastical.  Mundane bugs would need access to food sources that probably aren't present in your average dungeon or cave, but an palace treasure room that has (bug-sized) access to the place's pleasure gardens could be fine - and observing the unusual number of bees harvesting pollen outside might lead wary looters to winder where their hives are.  You could also just go full fantasy and have "cave wasps" that feed on fungi or mold or even have a symbiotic relationship with slimes.Or maybe the jars are hosting hives of incorporeal ghost bees that sting your soul instead of your body.  No air holes needed then, and <a href="https://sanctumreconditesage.blogspot.com/2020/11/exotic-flora-of-multiverse-ghost.html" target="_blank">Ghost Blossom Trees</a> could certainly grow in ancient crypts and the lairs of undead.</blockquote>