This came from Inner Mongolia and is a former saddle adornment. The Mongolian people were and are amazing horse people, as is well known, and saddle “concho” like decorations are seen in historic collections of Mongol arts. Apologies for bad winter lighting.
About 2 5/8" diameter, hallmarked, evidently 980 silver (I think the hallmarking is read upside down from what’s shown here). I have it on a leather cord.
I love saddle adornments.
Have you done any research on the hallmarks?
Hi, when I first got it I spent time trying to learn more about the hallmarks. I didn’t get anywhere in terms of finding comparables online or even useful closeups of something similar. A few were for sale in the shop where I found this. I’d still like to work this out. Maybe it’s time to order some books from the library.
In case others have experience or suggestions, here’s a somewhat better angle for the hallmarks.
This is beautiful @chicfarmer, thank you for sharing.
It’s fabulous!
Guessing there’s a character there that translates to silver, and the %86 indicates coin silver quality.
I wasn’t sure if there was in fact a convention to have the percent sign in front of the number, hence 86, versus “98%” (as it appears upside down). Thanks for weighing in.
I don’t read Chinese characters, so I don’t know what the conventions are, but I’d lay odds AI can tell you.
Google Lens? Or how did you translate this? You know, I’m always curious about languages and technology.
copy or save this image to your machine
go to google translate
follow these steps
this type of lettering is directional so it took me a few ways to get this result
Super cool detective work!
Thanks a lot. Google is so powerful. They know more about us than we do ourselves. Google Lens is an other way to do the same.
Now all we are lacking is an implanted Neuralink connection running the newest DeepSeek version on our internal quantum hardware, and we can do all of this instantly 
Ten years max, and this will absolutely be an option.
Noooooo…I will fight that till the bitter end 
Option is okay as long as they don’t run mad again like 2021/2022.
That.
@Steve the forum hallmark sleuth strikes again! Strong work
