Title
Pendant
Year/Period
1920s–1930s
Region
Penang
Material
Dimension
Gross Measurement: 0.3 x 6.4 x 4.2 cm
Accession No.
2013-00051
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Jon and Doreen Lim in memory of Mdm Heah Seok Yeong
This pendant is of a 1907 American gold coin with a frame of a pair of birds soldered to it. Such pendants would either be hung on a chain and used as a necklace or strung together with two other such coins to form a set of brooches (kerosang).The use of currency as jewellery was a signifier of wealth for many Peranakan Chinese and the aesthetics of such coins were very appealing.
