Gold charm

This article is about the item used in Summoning. For the item from the historical quest, see Gold charm (Wolf Whistle).

For the variant encountered in Daemonheim, see Gold charm (Dungeoneering).

Gold charm
Detailed
Release	15 January 2008 (Update)
Members	No
Members	No
Quest item	No
Quest item	No
Tradeable	No
Tradeable	No
Equipable	No
Equipable	No
Stackable	Yes
Stackable	Yes
Disassembly	Yes
Disassembly	Yes
Value	1 coin
Value	1 coin
High Alchemy	0 coins
High Alchemy	0 coins
Low Alchemy	0 coins
Low Alchemy	0 coins
Destroy	Drop
On death	Always kept outside Wild
Exchange	Not sold
Weight	0 kg
Examine	A charm used to summon familiars.

Gold charms are the lowest level charm of the four major types of charms used in the Summoning skill.

Common ways to obtain gold charms are as a drop from various monsters, hunting charm sprites, and thieving Dorgesh-Kaan Rich Chests. A less used but effective way of obtaining Gold Charms is to hunt Gelatinous Abominations, located in the Taverley Slayer Dungeon southeast of the Slayer master, Turael (or Spria). It is possible to receive multiple charms in one drop from higher levelled opponents.

Gold charms may also be purchased by using Zeal points obtained from the Soul Wars minigame (14 per 4 zeal) or by visiting the summoning shop in Taverley for one free sample gold charm. Players will receive 275 gold charms upon completion of the Wolf Whistle quest that may be used to start training the skill.

As gold charms give between 4.8 to 93.2 experience each depending on the pouch made, they are not as popular with higher levelled summoners as other charms due to their lower experience rates.

As with the other three major charm types, gold charms may be used in Dungeoneering to summon followers.

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:

Level	Familiar	Tertiary Cost	Shards (Cost)	XP	Price	Profit	GP/XP
1	Spirit wolf	Wolf bones 2,622	7 (175)	4.85	482	−2,315	−477.32
4	Dreadfowl	Raw chicken 938	8 (200)	9.3	337	−801	−86.13
10	Spirit spider	Spider carcass 992	8 (200)	12.6	588	−604	−47.94
13	Thorny snail	Thin snail 1,074	9 (225)	12.6	693	−606	−48.1
16	Granite crab	Iron ore 449	7 (175)	21.6	402	−222	−10.28
17	Spirit mosquito	Proboscis 6,486	1 (25)	46.5	722	−5,789	−124.49
40	Bull ant	Marigolds 5,327	11 (275)	52.8	813	−4,789	−90.7
52	Spirit terrorbird	Raw bird meat 875	12 (300)	68.4	1201	26	0.38
66	Barker toad	Swamp toad 796	11 (275)	87.0	1124	53	0.61
67	War tortoise	Tortoise shell 28,106	1 (25)	58.6	34551	6,420	109.56
71	Arctic bear	Polar kebbit fur 8,785	14 (350)	93.2	2096	−7,039	−75.53

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	# dropped	Drop frequency %	Effective drop rate
Aberrant spectres	104	1	11	0.11
Ankous	86,88,90	1	23	0.23
Bats	20	1	15	0.15
Black bears	34	1	16	0.16
Black demons	140	1	20	0.2
Blue dragons	74	1	11	0.11
Brine rats	70	1	22	0.22
Bronze dragons	131	1	13	0.13
Capsarii	150	1	10	0.1
Catablepon	49,64,68	1	18	0.18
Corporeal Beast	210	13	21	2.73
Deadly red spiders	136	1	25	0.24
Dust devils	93	1	11	0.11
Fire giants	85	1	55	0.55
Gelatinous abominations	2	1	41	0.4
Ghouls	42	1	18	0.18
Giant rock crabs	95	3	79	2.37
Giant bats	27	1	19	0.19
Grizzly bears	21,42	1	10	0.1
Hellhounds	92, 95	1	69	0.68
Hill giants	13,28	1	14	0.14
Hobgoblins	23,28,36,42,47	1	15	0.16
Infernal mages	66	1	32	0.32
Ice giants	51	1	44	0.44
Ice warriors	54	1	42	0.42
Iron dragons	98	2	12	0.24
Jogres	53,58,105	1	37	0.38
Khazard troopers	19	1	10	0.1
Killerwatts	55	1	14	0.13
Legio Quintus	175	6	21	1.32
Legio Secundus	175	6	19	0.96
Mithril dragons	304	4	19	0.76
Moss giants	42	1	32	0.32
Ogress champions	67	1	79	0.79
Rock crabs	102	1	10	0.1
Rorarii	84	1	45	0.45
Scutarii	150	1	19	0.2
Shadow warriors	48	1	10	0.1
Steel dragons	100	3	13	0.36
Suqahs	111	1	14	0.13
Thugs	16	1	11	0.11
Tormented demons	450	3	20	0.42
Tormented wraiths	129	1	12	0.13
Werewolves	63, 89	1	44	0.44
Wolves (level 60)	64	1	32	0.34
Zamorak warriors	81,84,85	1	17	0.17
Zogres	44	1	10	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 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

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Source	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Amlodd worker	N/A	1	Common
Columbarium	N/A	1	Common
Divine fire spirit	N/A	1–2	Common
Fire spirit	N/A	1–3	Common
Menaphite gift offering (large)	N/A	43–104	Common
Menaphite gift offering (medium)	N/A	72–80	Common
Menaphite gift offering (small)	N/A	37–137	Common
Shiny columbarium key	N/A	1	Common
Spirit impling	N/A	6	Common
Sunspear	N/A	1	Rare
Dung kalphite	N/A	1	Uncommon
Festive box (elite)	N/A	10	Uncommon
Gift box (elite)	N/A	10	Unknown
Gift box (hard)	N/A	10	Unknown

Store locations

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Seller	Location	Cost	Currency	Base stock	Members?

Disassembly

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%
Possible materials
Often
Spiritual parts	100%

Defined properties:

All Junk chance: 98.9 Junk chance: 98.9

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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, however, one free sample that can be taken.
• The free sample in Magestix and Pikkupstix's shop inventories could be considered an unlimited source of gold charms, but it would take an extremely long time to even obtain 50.
• 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.
• The Gold charm being obtainable as a free player, more than from one-time rewards, means that F2P is trainable, even after level 5 Summoning. However, no experience can be gained until you become P2P.
• 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.