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Subject:Pendant ID help please
Posted By: Cten Thu, Mar 07, 2024 IP: 185.187.243.198 Greetings, all. This little (34 mm) piece turned up in my parents' long-stored boxes. Probably acquired from one of their far-traveling friends in the 1940s. Looks and feels like low-karat gold, but maybe base metal. |
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Subject:Re: Pendant ID help please
Posted By: Bill H Sat, Mar 09, 2024 You have a Thai or Lao Buddha token meant for draping by a chain from the neck. It’s difficult to tell if it suffers from heavy wear or might be a secondary or tertiary casting. In either case, it has lost the details that might help say where it comes from. Only the script, which I can’t translate, might help pinpoint the place or identity of the Buddha. Any gold probably is superficial plate. |
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Subject:Re: Pendant ID help please
Posted By: Cten Tue, Mar 12, 2024 Many thanks for that, Bill. With your guidance, I put the same photo into Google Images, which now has an excellent translation function. It confirms your suggestion that the language is Thai - ครบ ๒๕๐๐ป, which renders as "completed 2500 years - right timing for the Buddha. |
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