Coins on Necklace

I recently retrieved from an old box that had been in the attic a framed necklace from the Middle East with 20 coins attached bought in the 80's.
I was curious about the coins and after research have ascertained that they are Iranian pre Revolution so carry the head of The Shah. Obviously having holes in them will detract from value, any comments?

Hi Linnet,

New to this site so bear with.

I have a collection of Yemenis jewellery, this very often has Silver coins attached.
The Yemenis were a great travelling people so were able to obtain silver coins from all around the region a and further afield.
Some of my pieces are from bridal collections which often stayed within the same family for generations.
Well worth your while to Google Yemenis jewellery and you will be pleasantly amazed at what you find.
Hope this is of some use
Regards
antonyms

Hi
Thank you for your reply, yes I also have various pieces, this is the only piece with coins attached. I am assuming
that all were withdrawn after the Iranian Revolution in 1979 so deemed worthless? Obviously no good as a dowry piece!

Hi Linnet

I am particularly interested in some of the talisman pieces, these often held wishes or prayers.

Iran, formerly Persia has a great wealth of art and some of this is carried over into the jewellery.

one thing I can assure is that it becomes addictive when researching and collecting.

happy hunting

Hi Linnet,

Welcome to Numista and welcome to the forum!

The coins are indeed from Iran, most of them from the last pre-revolutionary years, and most of them 20 rials like these, judging by the size:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces3766.html

A few coins date from the first years after the revolution, like these:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces10908.html
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1696.html

All of the coins are not made of silver, but copper-nickel, and with this kind of soldering damage, they are numismatically seen, close to worthless.

But as a piece of jewelry, it is pretty intriguing. Do you have any more details about the story behind it?

• In post-revolutionary Iran, nobody would choose to walk around with the former Shah around his neck, not even with the image upside down.
  
• If it was obtained in the '80-ies, then some of the coins (there is a post-revolutionary 2 rials on the necklace) may still have been circulating. Usually, only demonetized silver and golden coins are reused for jewelry, as posted by antonyms.
  

My main deduction would be that this necklace wasn't produced in Iran itself, but outside, by someone for whom these coins were worthless as money, but valuable enough to turn into a jewel.

Thank you so much, interesting detail.

Bought/Sold in the Emirates as a wedding piece but clearly was a 'good sale' and use of old
coinage. Intriguing given the history a good conversation piece after all.

Fine treasure!

Citeer: "Linnet" Obviously having holes in them will detract from value, any comments?

​These coins are soldered on the jewelry so no holes at all. From a numismatic point of view, this remaining solder residue (if the coins would be separated from the jewelry) is even less appealing than a hole. And as ArnoV already said, since the coins used are base metal the value would be very low, together with the solder damage, the numismatic value will be almost nothing. Don't separate the coins from the jewelry, the result would be no added value for the coins and a less appealing jewelry.

Beautiful piece but besides the relative lack of value of the coins, I'm curious as to the composition of the rest of the piece. If the rest is composed of silver, I would imagine it has quite a bit of value in that regard.

Yes I would hope so unfortunately necklaces of this type were never stamped. I will have to take it out of the frame
to ascertain.