Type A Jadeite Safety Coin, Icy with Yang Green Band, 29.7mm

A natural Type A jadeite safety coin (平安扣) in icy texture, a clear body with a band of vivid yang green on one side, about 29.7 mm across and 5.9 mm thick, unset.

Icy jadeite is fine-grained and highly translucent, so light passes through it with a clear, watery glow. The seller's words were "excellent texture and color": the coin is as clear as still water, with a blue-white glow rising at the rim, and on the right a band of intense yang green runs from top to bottom like one stroke of a brush across ice, vivid and full of depth. A highly translucent body with a true-green band is exactly the combination most sought after in safety coins.

At 29.7 mm this is a large safety coin with real presence on the chest: generous on a man, and on a woman it can become a statement pendant with an elaborate setting. Texture and color of this level make it a piece to keep or hand down; as an unset coin it can be worn on a cord now and set in gold later.

Every natural jadeite is one of a kind; any fine cotton specks or stone lines in this 29.7 mm green-band safety coin formed in nature and are part of what shows it has not been treated.

This 29.7 mm green-band safety coin comes with a certificate, and before dispatch we check once more that the piece and the certificate match. It ships free, insured and tracked, and can be returned unworn with its certificate and packaging within 7 days of delivery.