Novac u funkciji nakita u karlovačkom području
Money as Jewelry in the Karlovac Region

Summary/Abstract: Jewelry, golden and silver coins have both aesthetic and economic functions. In the Karlovac area, unmarried girls used to wear them far festive occasions, mostly in the form of necklaces and breast panels. That golden and silver money Is of the 19th century Austro-Hungarian provenience — often with the imprinted image of Emperor Franz Joseph, but American silver dollars can be seen too. Coins as jewelry are inherited through female line, from mother to daughter, or sometimes from mother-in-law to daughter-in-law (in order that the jewelry stays in the same household). As a rule, this valuable type of jewelry is a reserve for »rainy days« and is rarely sold.

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