Old Persian Coin Star Lapis earrings

Silver and faceted lapis

These dazzling earrings feature faceted lapis which play with the light as they move and feature coins with calligraphic impressions of an old Persian original finished in gold vermeil. Coins are often worn as decorative elements forming parts of headdresses, hats and clothes.

Afghanistan was the source of lapis lazuli for the ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations, 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.