Pendant made from a silver coin. [MJD 09/04/2010]

Collection type: Object
Description: Pendant made from a silver coin. [MJD 09/04/2010]
Long description: Pendant made from a silver coin. The coin has a star design on one side with the year 1322 in the centre. The reverse has Arabic text in the centre circle and around the border. There is a strip of metal riveted to the coin to form a loop. [MJD 09/04/2010]
Geographical reference: Morocco
Africa > Northern Africa > Morocco
Person: Field collector Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton; PRM source Antoinette Powell-Cotton
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1940
Date collected: 1930 or 1936?
Acquisition information: Donated: 1940
Materials and processes: Material Silver Metal, Process Struck, Process Riveted
Dimensions: Diameter: max 31 mm, Length: max 46 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1940.10.43 Other numbers: 18
Research and responses: Major Powell-Cotton mounted expeditions to Morocco in 1930 and 1936, and it seems likely that this object was acquired during one of these two trips [RTS 25/8/2004].

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