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This one really looks old. Interesting -only one place for a coin dangle. Usually there are three. This is a real treasure.
Are you listing this one? I LOVE it.
This one did have two other dangles at one point, now gone. I just listed in on Vivid Vault. It is a rather heavy piece and I love how the back shows the supports built in inside to keep the front and back from collapsing from wear.
Hi Toya, the two other loops are entirely gone, sad to say.
So about 7 centimeters long for the box part of the pendant?
Including the coin, just shy of 12.5 cm long and 7.5 wide (without counting the side jumprings).
Without the coin dangle it is almost 8 cm long.
Hello Hillary, I wonder: does your pendant also have an extra kind of tube at the backside for a cord?
I ask because I owe one that has (like yours) the eyes at the sides + a tube at the back. But may be your item is not a hollow like mine one but flat. Hard to see on the picture.
Harald
Hello Harald, It is in a box shape. There is no tube at the back side, but the two loops with jumprings that you see on the side. I believe I posted two more photos of this piece, one of the back and one that is a close-up.
It's a pity there isn't more, Hillary, but what you are showing us is VERY good. Thanks. Had not come across this before, I believe. The piece is much older, and has far more "soul" and power, than the vast majority of pieces from Morocco which I have seen for some time. It has had intensive use, for sure!