Let the comments be filled with coin purse jokes!

Now that that's out of the way...

I really hated the fluorescent orange glowing coin purses. On top of that, the bump mapping was pretty lackluster, the tie rope and stitching stood out like sore thumbs, and there was absolutely no "reflectivity" at all. Even extremely non-reflective surfaces interact a tiny bit with lighting, and if they don't they look flat and fake. So I tweaked the purse texture for a darker, less orange, real leather look first. Then I ran it through a great program called Crazybump, which makes some pretty spectacular bump maps, for that extra touch. They now also subtly interact with the light, and shadows play across their surface much better. Finally, they are the teeny-tiniest bit reflective (don't worry, I was very careful to not over-do this) and give the illusion of real, worn but still rough leather (This really has to be seen in-game to be adequately appreciated.). It ought to look great with a lot of ENBs, as well. I also attempted to show a variety of lighting conditions in the images section to display what they look like under varying circumstances.

Why did I bother to make this? 

There are a few other retextures and replacers out there for this object, but some either looked over-the-top and clashed with the rest of the game, looked unrealistic and break the vanilla "feel", got the color right but did nothing about the bump mapping or reflectivity, or are hidden and hard to find in big texture packs that change all kinds of other textures. Who wants to spend hours trolling the Nexus and taking apart big texture packs to find a good retex for a single object? My mod says "coin purse" right in the name, so all you need to do is type that in the file search bar. :) 

In to realism and immersion and hate inconsistencies and eyesores like me? You might enjoy two other mods I completed recently:

Farkas Wears Wolf Armor

Or

Karliah Wears Guild Armor