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The coins look like Empire cherifien coins which were minted in Morocco as early as 1921 up until 1974.I know nothing about coins, btw, this is just by comparing images on google. So, probably Moroccan
I guess it could be but doesn't look like Moroccan style or work to me. It's seems in construction more Arab Peninsula to me .. I will start looking it up later.. i have allot of books I don't access much due to not getting material from there all that much.. This is out of my knowledge range. thanks
Well, maybe they took the coins and constructed the necklace elsewhere. I'll get a pic of a cherifien coin in a bit.
Do the coins have a Star of David on the reverse? I understand that cherifen coins do but I could be wrong.
Looks great!
Here is a pic of an empire cherifien
I would attribute the piece to the Moyen atlas
I shall search my references when i have them to hand later this evening and add more info.
S x
My memory is a bit unreliable sometimes!
This is indeed from Morocco.
Middle atlas mountains but with a flavour of the eastern parts of the chain, matter of fact it has the same construction as the ait seghrouchen "Taseddit" made from niello parts!
Should be an avatar of this style made with coins, after the area lost the enamel tradition!
The coral here was later added but not in the ethnic context, possibly by the dealer.
Coins are nickel or low grade silver but not sure, i guess they are since they have used metal and even iron to make bails!
This jewels was worn primarly as a necklace or breast plate, either with strings or chains over the neck, or directly attached to small hooks or independent smaller fibulas (rarely to the fibulas used to fasten the clothes)
General name is "TASSEDDIT"
BTW a very lovely piece of jewelry -- the coins are attached beautifully together and all intact. I don't think that these are much seen on the market.
We find loads of them but often torn in parts and not complete.
The most amazing fact about them is that they do often come in metal!!!
As if there was a sharp change from the niello/silver combination straight to coin/metal one!
A great sign of the material and cultral impoverishment of local tribes: they lost at the same time the ability and possibility to maintain niello in their jewels and silver as the main material
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