Coins Peridot Gold Earrings

Silver with vermeil and peridot

These stylish earrings feature a coin with a calligraphic impression of the poetry of Rumi, a Persian poet widely admired in the rest of the world. Coins are often worn as decorative elements forming parts of headdresses, hats and clothes. The textured coin and the bezel are finished in gold vermeil.

Peridot, sometimes called chrysolite, is a yellow-green transparent variety of olivine. Peridot is one of the few gemstones that occur in only one colour. Peridot is historically connected to Persia (Iran) through ancient mining, historical trade routes. Peridot has been prized since the earliest civilisations for its claimed protective powers to drive away fears and nightmares, according to superstitions. There is a superstition that it carries the gift of “inner radiance”, sharpening the mind and opening it to new levels of awareness and growth, helping one to recognise and realise one’s destiny and spiritual purpose

POETRY TRANSLATION

RUMI: I HAVE A CAVE (FROM PERSIAN)

You are my cave. You are my friend. Enslave me and defend me.
O only Noah that I know, O opener now open,
O heart restored before the secret door where you befriend me!
You are the light, the banquet night, the victim’s victory.
You are the hoopoe bird of Sinai, set to swoop and rend me.
You are the stream. You are the sea. You are the lenient tyrant.
You are the poison and the sugar. Friend, do not torment me.
You are the chamber of the sun, the stations of the stars,
You are the prairie green with hope. Show me the way and send me.
You are my dawn, my Ramadan, the alms that I begged for and won.
You are the jar. You are the water. Slake me with water. Mend me.

Please note that depending on the design, size and finish of a piece, only fragments of the words may be visible.