Old Persian Coin Amalia Lapis Small Necklace

Silver and gold vermeil with lapis

These stylish necklace feature a coin with a calligraphic impression of an old Persian coin. 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.

Afghanistan was the source of lapis lazuli for the ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilisations, as well as the later Greeks and Romans.The best lapis lazuli is found in Badakhshan province in north-eastern Afghanistan and has been used for millennia in jewellery. The word lazuli is derived ultimately from the Persian lazhward, the name of a place where it was mined and which came to be associated with the stone and, eventually, with its colour.

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