Gold charm

For other uses, see Gold charm (disambiguation).

Gold charm
Release	15 January 2008 (Update)
Members	No
Quest item	No
Properties
Tradeable	No
Equipable	No
Stackable	Yes
Disassembly	Yes
Destroy	Drop
Values
Value	1 coin
High alch	1 coin
Low alch	1 coin
On death	Always kept outside Wild
Weight	0 kg
Examine
A charm used to summon familiars.
Advanced data
Item ID	12158
Links	MRID • recipe
FAQ • doc

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A gold charm is the first- and lowest-tier charm of the four main types of charms used in the Summoning skill, and the only available in free-to-play, with no requirements to use. The amount of experience gained from creating Summoning pouches that use gold charms varies from 4.8 to 93.2 experience each, depending on the pouch being created.

Common ways to obtain gold charms are as a drop from various monsters, hunting charm sprites, and thieving Dorgesh-Kaan Rich Chests. Gelatinous abominations is one effective source for low-level players as they have a high drop rate and are easy to kill. It is possible to receive multiple charms in one drop from higher-level opponents.

Gold charms may also be purchased using Zeal points obtained from the Soul Wars minigame or by visiting Pikkupstix's Summoning Shop in Taverley for one free sample gold charm. Players will receive 275 gold charms upon completion of Wolf Whistle, which may be used to start training the skill.

Additionally, Spirit gems may be used to save these charms when creating pouches.

The Charming Imp may be used to automatically collect these charms.

Products

General

This is an auto-generated list (update now), and shows the first 100 items alphabetically. For all items, click here.

Item	Skills	Materials	GE price
Arctic bear pouch	71	1 × Pouch 14 × Spirit shards 1 × Gold charm 1 × Polar kebbit fur	2,372
Barker toad pouch	66	1 × Pouch 11 × Spirit shards 1 × Gold charm 1 × Swamp toad	1,433
Bull ant pouch	40	1 × Pouch 11 × Spirit shards 1 × Gold charm 1 × Marigolds	854
Charming potion (3)	102	1 × Primal extract 4 × Gold charm 4 × Green charm 4 × Crimson charm 4 × Blue charm 1 × Spark chitin	2,044
Dreadfowl pouch	4	1 × Pouch 8 × Spirit shards 1 × Gold charm 1 × Raw chicken	462
Granite crab pouch	16	1 × Pouch 7 × Spirit shards 1 × Gold charm 1 × Iron ore	406
Green charm × 10 (transmutation)	64	250 × Vibrant energy 20 × Gold charm	N/A
Pack pig pouch	14	1 × Pouch 6 × Spirit shards 1 × Gold charm 1 × Pack pig tooth	N/A
Prayer pig pouch	14	1 × Pouch 6 × Spirit shards 1 × Gold charm 1 × Prayer pig tooth	N/A
Small obelisk (player-owned house) (construction)	41	1 × Marble block 1000 × Spirit shards 10 × Gold charm 10 × Green charm 10 × Crimson charm 10 × Blue charm	N/A
Spirit mosquito pouch	17	1 × Pouch 1 × Spirit shards 1 × Gold charm 1 × Proboscis	598
Spirit spider pouch	10	1 × Pouch 8 × Spirit shards 1 × Gold charm 1 × Spider carcass	667
Spirit terrorbird pouch	52	1 × Pouch 12 × Spirit shards 1 × Gold charm 1 × Raw bird meat	1,139
Spirit wolf pouch	1	1 × Pouch 7 × Spirit shards 1 × Gold charm 1 × Wolf bones	736
Thorny snail pouch	13	1 × Pouch 9 × Spirit shards 1 × Gold charm 1 × Thin snail	688
War pig pouch	14	1 × Pouch 6 × Spirit shards 1 × Gold charm 1 × War pig tooth	N/A
War tortoise pouch	67	1 × Pouch 1 × Spirit shards 1 × Gold charm 1 × Tortoise shell	24,595

Familiars

Pouches that use gold charms generally require minimal use of spirit shards.

Gold charms are used to create summoning pouches for the following familiars:

Level	Familiar	Tertiary Cost	Shards (Cost)	XP	Price	Profit	GP/XP
1	Spirit wolf	Wolf bones 3,284	7 (175)	4.85	736	−2,723	−561.44
4	Dreadfowl	Raw chicken 1,405	8 (200)	9.3	462	−1,143	−122.9
10	Spirit spider	Spider carcass 2,067	8 (200)	12.6	667	−1,600	−126.98
13	Thorny snail	Thin snail 990	9 (225)	12.6	688	−527	−41.83
16	Granite crab	Iron ore 474	7 (175)	21.6	406	−243	−11.25
17	Spirit mosquito	Proboscis 8,199	1 (25)	46.5	598	−7,626	−164
40	Bull ant	Marigolds 9,988	11 (275)	52.8	854	−9,409	−178.2
52	Spirit terrorbird	Raw bird meat 778	12 (300)	68.4	1139	61	0.89
66	Barker toad	Swamp toad 1,729	11 (275)	87.0	1433	−571	−6.56
67	War tortoise	Tortoise shell 24,071	1 (25)	58.6	24595	499	8.52
71	Arctic bear	Polar kebbit fur 8,644	14 (350)	93.2	2372	−6,622	−71.05

Spirit wolves and dreadfowl are available to free-to-play.

Monsters that drop gold charms

Monsters with a significant gold charm drop rate (greater than 10%) are listed below. It is not meant to be inclusive of all monsters that drop gold charms.

Effective drop rate is the average number of charms received per monster killed.

Monster	Combat level	No. dropped	Drop frequency %	Effective drop rate
Aberrant spectre	104	1	11.8%	0.11
Ankou	86, 88, 90	1	23.6%	0.23
Bat	20	1	15.8%	0.15
Black bear	34	1	16.5%	0.16
Black demon	140	1	20.8%	0.2
Blue dragon	74	1	11.1%	0.11
Brine rat	70	1	22.7%	0.22
Bronze dragon	131	1	13.6%	0.13
Capsarii	150	1	11.3%	0.1
Catablepon	49, 64, 68	1	19%	0.18
Corporeal Beast	210	13	22.3%	2.73
Deadly red spider	136	1	25.1%	0.24
Dust devil	93	1	11.9%	0.11
Fire giant	85	1	55.6%	0.55
Gelatinous abomination	2	1	41.1%	0.4
Ghoul	42	1	18.4%	0.18
Giant rock crab	95	3	79.3%	2.37
Giant bat	27	1	19.2%	0.19
Grizzly bear	21, 42	1	10.8%	0.1
Hellhound	92, 95	1	69%	0.68
Hill giant	13, 28	1	14.4%	0.14
Hobgoblin	23, 28, 36, 42, 47	1	16%	0.16
Infernal mage	66	1	32.9%	0.32
Ice giant	51	1	44.7%	0.44
Ice warrior	54	1	42%	0.42
Iron dragon	98	2	12.3%	0.24
Jogre	53, 58, 105	1	36.4%	0.38
Khazard trooper	19	1	10.8%	0.1
Killerwatt	55	1	14.1%	0.13
Legio Quintus	175	6	20.3%	1.32
Legio Secundus	175	6	19.3%	0.96
Mithril dragon	304	4	19.2%	0.76
Moss giant	51	1	35%	0.32
Ogress champion	67	1	79.3%	0.79
Rock crab	102	1	10.1%	0.1
Rorarii	84	1	45.4%	0.45
Scutarii	150	1	19.8%	0.2
Shadow warrior	48	1	10.5%	0.1
Steel dragon	100	3	13.9%	0.36
Suqah	111	1	14.1%	0.13
Thug	16	1	11.5%	0.11
Tormented demon	450	3	20.7%	0.42
Tormented wraith	129	1	12.5%	0.13
Werewolf	63, 89	1	44.3%	0.44
Wolf (level 42)	42	1	32%	0.34
Zamorak warrior	81, 84, 85	1	17.9%	0.17
Zogre	44	1	10.9%	0.1

Note that monsters do not drop gold charms on free-to-play worlds.

Other charm obtaining methods

• Looting Dorgesh-Kaan Average Chests
• Looting Dorgesh-Kaan Rich Chests
• Pickpocketing Amlodd workers
• Soul Wars rewards
• Catching Spirit implings
• Hunting Charm sprites
• Hunting Charming moths
• Freeing Fire Spirits
• Completing the Wolf Whistle quest which gives 275 gold charms. (F2P)
• A one-time reward of 10 gold charms from saving Nora from a burning building in Burthorpe (F2P)

Drop sources

This is an auto-generated list (update now). For all sources of this item, see here (include RDT). For help, see the FAQ.

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity	Members
Amlodd worker	94	1	Common	N/A
Augmented Sunspear (magic)	?	1	Rare
Augmented Sunspear (melee)	?	1	Rare
Augmented Sunspear (ranged)	?	1	Rare
Dung kalphite	N/A	1	Uncommon	N/A
Festive box (elite)	N/A	10	Uncommon	N/A
Fire spirit (item)	N/A	1–2	6804.67/10004	N/A
Fire spirit (item) divine	N/A	1–2	Common	N/A
Fire spirit (item) divine forge phoenix	N/A	1–2	Common	N/A
Fire spirit (item) normal	N/A	1–3	Common	N/A
Gift box (elite)	N/A	10	Common	N/A
Gift box (hard)	N/A	10	1/5	N/A
Gift box (medium)	N/A	10	1/5	N/A
Menaphite gift offering (large)	N/A	43–110	Common	N/A
Menaphite gift offering (medium)	N/A	72–80	Common	N/A
Menaphite gift offering (small)	N/A	36–83	104.22/1474	N/A
Shiny columbarium key	N/A	1	Common	N/A
Spirit impling	54	6	Common	N/A
Sunspear (magic)	?	1	Rare
Sunspear (melee)	?	1	Rare
Sunspear (ranged)	?	1	Rare
Sunspear	?	1	Rare

Store locations

This is an auto-generated list (update now). For help, see the FAQ.

Seller	Location	Cost	Currency	Base stock	Members?
Magestix's Summoning Shop	Taverley	1	Coins	0
Magestix's Summoning Shop	Taverley	Free sample	-	1
Pikkupstix's Summoning Shop	Taverley	Free sample	-	1

Disassembly

Gold charm
Disassembly category	Charms
Disassembly XP	0.1
Item quantity required	1
Material count	1
Base junk chance	?  98.9% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 98.9% 1 34 98.0 2 49 96.0 3 64 94.0 4 69 92.0 5 78 90.0 6 83 87.1 7 91 85.1 8 95 82.1 9 105 79.2
Common materials
Spiritual parts	1/1

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included - see here for how to help out!

• update 15 January 2008 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Gold charms appear in Magestix and Pikkupstix's shop inventories, but they cannot be sold to them, and there is no stock of the item. There is a single free sample that can be taken, but it is an inefficient way to obtain them as it takes a long time to restock.
• Gold charms were allowed for free players as of 4 March 2013, along with the release of The World Wakes. All other charms remain members only.
• Troll Chuckers, Troll brutes and cows in Burthorpe are the only monsters that drop Gold charms on free-to-play worlds.
• There was also a 'glitch' in the Dagannoth Lighthouse where there is a gold charm that is dropped but unobtainable; however, some speculate this is a counter measure to bots as they will click on the unobtainable charm for hours, although this is probably just a mistake.