Gold charm



Gold charms are used in Summoning to summon certain creatures. It can be obtained as a drop from various monsters. You will also receive 275 gold charms for completing the Wolf Whistle quest. All pouches that use a gold charm also use 1-14 spirit shards and give 4.8 to 93.2 experience each depending on the pouch made. This is the charm mainly used to train summoning at low to moderate levels.

Familiars
Pouches that require gold charms to make generally need a minimal amount of spirit shards.

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

Monsters that drop gold charms

 * Aberrant Spectres - (13%)
 * Abyssal Demon - (3%)
 * Abyssal Guardians - (3-11%)
 * Abyssal Walkers - (6-11%) - (2 at a time)
 * Ankous - (30%) - (common)
 * Armoured zombie - (10%)
 * Baby black dragon - (11%) (drops green and crimson more often than gold)
 * Bats - (11%)
 * Banshees - (3%) - (drop them every so often)
 * Basilisks - (10%)
 * Black bears - (17%)
 * Black Knights
 * Black unicorns - (2%)
 * Bloodvelds - (8%)
 * Bloodworms - (6%)
 * Black dragons - (7%) - (3 at a time)
 * Blue dragons - (10%)
 * Brine rats - (common)
 * Bronze Dragons - (14%)
 * Catablepons - (25%)
 * Cave Crawlers - (8%)
 * Cockatrice - (4%)
 * Cockroach soldiers - (10%)
 * Cows - (3%)
 * Crawling Hands - (7%)
 * Dagannoths - (all levels) common
 * Deadly Red Spiders - (30%) - (common)
 * Dust Devils - (11%)
 * Druids - (8%)
 * Dwarfs - (11%)
 * Earth Warriors - (8%)
 * Flesh crawlers - (7%)
 * Fire giant - (54%) - (very common)
 * Ghouls - (46%) - (common)
 * Giant Rock Crabs - (50%) - (drops up to 3 at a time)
 * Giant Bats - (19%)
 * Giant Crypt Rats - (5%)
 * Goblins - (11%)
 * Green Dragons - (9%)
 * Grizzly bears - (16%) - (common)
 * Guards - (6%)
 * Hellhounds - (83%) - (very common)
 * Hill Giants - (15%) - (common)
 * Hobgoblin - (19%)
 * Infernal Mages - (31%) - (common)
 * Ice Giants - (47%) - (common)
 * Ice Warriors - (53%) - (Very common)
 * Iron Dragons - (20%) - (2 at a time, common)
 * Ivory Statue - (15%) - (Common)
 * Jellies - (13%)
 * Jogres - (38%) - (One of the best sources)
 * Kalphites
 * Khazard troopers - (10%) - (common)
 * Killerwatt - (18%)
 * King Black Dragons - (10%) - (4 at a time)
 * Kurasks - (8%)
 * Lesser Demons - (2%) - (rare)
 * Locust riders - (9%)
 * Mithril Dragons - (11%) - (4 at a time)
 * Moss giants - (29%) - (common)
 * Ogres - (14%)
 * Ogress Champions - (88%) - (extremely common)
 * Rock Crabs - (14%)
 * Scorpions - (4%)
 * Shadow Warriors - (10%) - (can drop 2 at a time (but more often drop crimson. Can also drop green and blue.)
 * Spirit Implings
 * Pyrefiends - (7%) - (common)
 * Skogres


 * Steel Dragon - (14%) - (3 at a time, common)
 * Suqahs - (12%)
 * Thugs - (19%)
 * Terror Dogs - (12%)
 * Tormented Demon - (13%) - (3 at a time, common)
 * Tormented Wraith - (12%)
 * Turoth - (7%) - (common)
 * Wall beasts - (14%)
 * Warrior women
 * Werewolves - (53%) - (very common)
 * Wolves
 * Zamorak Mages
 * Zamorak Warriors - (15%)
 * Zogres - (25%)

Other Charm Obtaining methods

 * Dorgesh-Kaan Average Chest
 * Dorgesh-Kaan Rich Chest
 * Soul Wars Rewards
 * Looting a Spirit Impling

Trivia

 * The symbol on the charm slightly resembles the Greek letter pi (π), which is used to represent the number 3,141592... (the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter)