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Monete

Bulgari

Monete

Ancient Greek and Roman coins, worn and unpolished, set whole in heavy gold frames and hung from chains.

Idea
The emblem and the coin
School
Rome
Materials
yellow gold, rose gold, steel, diamond, other

Monete at Bulgari

The story

In the 1960s Nicola Bulgari, a grandson of the founder and a coin collector, revived the old Roman habit of mounting ancient coins in jewellery. The house began with coins on long chain necklaces and, as clients took to them, moved them onto earrings, rings and bracelets, keeping each coin's wear intact. Bulgari still sets two-thousand-year-old coins in contemporary gold mounts, sometimes on Tubogas chokers.

Lineage

  • Tubogas

    Answers

    Tubogas, Bulgari (1941)

    Bulgari hung its ancient coins on Tubogas chokers, the worn bronze of Rome set against a coil of polished gold.

  • Bvlgari Bvlgari

    Answered by

    Bvlgari Bvlgari, Bulgari

    Bvlgari Bvlgari engraves the house's name twice round a rim, the way a Roman coin carries an emperor's.

  • Pi pendant: a hand-hammered disc of 24-carat yellow gold with a central hole, on a white ground.

    Answered by · 1991

    Pi, dinh van (1991)

    Where Bulgari set ancient coins whole, Dinh Van hammered a new disc of pure gold after the bi of ancient China.

If you love Monete

On the map
Pi pendant: a hand-hammered disc of 24-carat yellow gold with a central hole, on a white ground.
Image © dinh van

Pi

dinh van · 1991 From €2,500
A hand at a woman's chin wearing a Pretty Woman ring: a red-stone heart inside a diamond-set heart in white gold
Image © FRED

Pretty Woman

FRED From €950
Three Tiffany T wire bracelets in rose, white and yellow gold, their T-shaped terminals set with diamonds, stacked on a pale blue ground.
Image © Tiffany & Co.

Tiffany T

Tiffany & Co. · 2014 From €820
Return to Tiffany heart tag chain link necklace in sterling silver, the tag engraved Please Return to Tiffany & Co. New York, on a green ground beside an orange Andy Warhol bird from the 2022 holiday campaign.
Image © Tiffany & Co.

Return to Tiffany

Tiffany & Co. · 1966 From €750
Jeux de Liens pendant, medium model, rose gold and diamonds
Image © Chaumet

Liens

Chaumet · 1977
Sculpted Cable bracelet in 18k yellow gold, 14 mm: the cable twist rendered as a row of polished gold waves, on a white ground.
Image © David Yurman

Sculpted Cable

David Yurman · 2023 From €250
Chance Infinie necklace in white gold paved with diamonds, a figure-eight knot at the front with two drops, on a sunlit beige ground
Image © FRED

Chance Infinie

FRED · 2016 From €1,580
Écrou de Cartier bracelet in yellow gold: a thin threaded bangle carrying small hexagonal nuts, on a pale grey ground.
Image © Cartier

Écrou de Cartier

Cartier · 2017 From €2,860

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